Posttraumatic embitterment disorder Contents Forms of embitterment Symptoms of posttraumatic embitterment...
Psychiatric diagnosis: marginal or unestablished diagnostic categories The posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) is a pathological reaction to drastic life events and has the tendency not to stop. The trigger is an extraordinary although common negative life event as for example divorce, dismissal, personal insult or vilification. The consequence is severe and long lasting embitterment. This disorder is not “traumatic” because of the content of the triggering event but because of the temporal connection to the critical incident. Minutes before the person was healthy, minutes later they are chronically ill and severely affected. This type of disorder has been discussed in psychiatry or in the judiciary under acts of querulatory delusion. Thus, for example, in the textbook of psychiatry Kraepelin [1] among the "psychogenic disorders" the description of acts of querulatory delusion are described as a form of "traumatic neurosis", which is also explicitly di...