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Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives
Embitterment is a distinct state of mood known to everyone. It can be seen in the context of exceptional though “normal” negative life events. It is an emotional reaction e.g. to humiliation, to being severely disappointed by others, or to violations of basic values. Embitterment is accompanied by other emotions like feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, poor moods and a lack of drive, and aggression towards oneself and others. It can end in suicide or even murder-suicide and in a distinct pathological state known as “Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)”. But despite the high prevalence rates, the detrimental effects on individuals and its forensic and societal importance, embitterment has yet to receive due scientific attention.
In this book pioneers in embitterment research summarize the current knowledge on embitterment, its triggers, phenomenology and consequences. The work is intended to stimulate international debate and to contribute to a better understanding of embitterment and a deeper appreciation of the impact of exceptional but normal negative life events on psychological well-being.

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Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives
Embitterment is a distinct state of mood known to everyone. It can be seen in the context of exceptional though “normal” negative life events. It is an emotional reaction e.g. to humiliation, to being severely disappointed by others, or to violations of basic values. Embitterment is accompanied by other emotions like feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, poor moods and a lack of drive, and aggression towards oneself and others. It can end in suicide or even murder-suicide and in a distinct pathological state known as “Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)”. But despite the high prevalence rates, the detrimental effects on individuals and its forensic and societal importance, embitterment has yet to receive due scientific attention.
In this book pioneers in embitterment research summarize the current knowledge on embitterment, its triggers, phenomenology and consequences. The work is intended to stimulate international debate and to contribute to a better understanding of embitterment and a deeper appreciation of the impact of exceptional but normal negative life events on psychological well-being.

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Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives

Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives

Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives

Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives

Overview

Embitterment is a distinct state of mood known to everyone. It can be seen in the context of exceptional though “normal” negative life events. It is an emotional reaction e.g. to humiliation, to being severely disappointed by others, or to violations of basic values. Embitterment is accompanied by other emotions like feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, poor moods and a lack of drive, and aggression towards oneself and others. It can end in suicide or even murder-suicide and in a distinct pathological state known as “Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)”. But despite the high prevalence rates, the detrimental effects on individuals and its forensic and societal importance, embitterment has yet to receive due scientific attention.
In this book pioneers in embitterment research summarize the current knowledge on embitterment, its triggers, phenomenology and consequences. The work is intended to stimulate international debate and to contribute to a better understanding of embitterment and a deeper appreciation of the impact of exceptional but normal negative life events on psychological well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783709117286
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Publication date: 09/23/2014
Edition description: 2011
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

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

Table of Contents

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

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