Embitterment (eBook)

Prof. Dr.med. Dipl.Psych Michael Linden, Head of Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation, Charité, BerlinProf. Dr. Dr. Andreas Maercker, Head of Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Switzerland

1. Psychology and neurobiology of embittermentPTSD and beyond. The embitterment reactionThe psychology of embittermentPsychology of hope and despairThe belief in a just wordPersonality and embitterment reactionsNeurobiological Correlates of Social Exclusion and Social Pain RevengeWisdom psychology
2. Context of embittermentPartnership and embittermentBereavement and embittermentLife Span development, old age and embittermentCancer and embittermentWork and EmbittermentThe Asian perspective on "loosing one’s face"War trauma, Displacement and Embitterment
3. Treatment of embittermentPharmacotherapeutic options in the treatment of reactive disorders and embittermentForgiveness therapyWisdom psychotherapy
4. Legal, societal, and political dimensions of embitterment and forgiveness
Homicide-suicide and forensic aspects of injustice, humiliation and embitterment
Introduction: Embitterment and the German ReunificationForgiveness education in Northern IrelandEmbitterment and Apartheid
5. Embitterment and the classification of mental disordersThe differentiation between normal and pathological emmotion. Should embitterment be listed in glossaries of psychopathological terms?Differentiation between "Reactive mental disorders" and adjustment problems because of personality (-disorders)Classification of reactive mental disorders in ICD and DSMContext factors and reactive disorders in the Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder