Embitterment

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 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 theraps.- 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.