Embitterment: Societal, Psychological, and Clinical Perspectives

Abstract

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 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 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 in ICD and DSM Context factors and reactive in the Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder