English Explanatory Dictionary

post-traumatic embitterment disorder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

post-traumatic embitterment disorder post-traumatic embitterment disorders PTED posttraumatic embitterment disorder post traumatic embitterment disorder

Etymology

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

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