post-traumatic embitterment disorder

See also: post traumatic embitterment disorder and posttraumatic embitterment disorder

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Etymology

Coined by German psychologist and psychiatrist Michael Linden in 2003 (→DOI) together with its German equivalent posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung.

Noun

post-traumatic embitterment disorder (countable and uncountable, plural post-traumatic embitterment disorders)

  1. (psychology) A chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.

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