1. Psychology and neurobiology of embitterment
PTSD and beyond. The embitterment reaction
The psychology of embitterment
Psychology of hope and despair
The belief in a just word
Personality and embitterment reactions
Neurobiological Correlates of Social Exclusion and Social Pain
Revenge
Wisdom psychology
2. Context of embitterment
Partnership and embitterment
Bereavement and embitterment
Life Span development, old age and embitterment
Cancer and embitterment
Work and Embitterment
The Asian perspective on "loosing one's face"
War trauma, Displacement and Embitterment
3. Treatment of embitterment
Pharmacotherapeutic options in the treatment of reactive disorders and embitterment
Forgiveness therapy
Wisdom 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 Reunification
Forgiveness education in Northern Ireland
Embitterment and Apartheid
5. Embitterment and the classification of mental disorders
The 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 DSM
Context factors and reactive disorders in the
Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder
About the Author: Prof. Dr.med. Dipl.Psych Michael Linden, Head of Research Group Psychosomatic Rehabilitation, Charité, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Maercker, Head of Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Switzerland
