PTED Scale
• Tool that can help psychiatrist recognize the severity of embitterment disorder.
• Because reactive embitterment disorder can have negative consequences if individual cannot cope with it, the PTED scale allows psychiatrists to also assess the intensity of embitterment.
Treatment
• Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy
• Wisdom therapy
Post Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)
By: Kelly Bedoya
September 27, 2017
• A proposed mental disorder based on research by German psychiatrist Michael Linden and his coworkers.
• Linden defined PTED in 2003 as “a mental reaction to a critical even that is normal, but not every day, and in this respect exceptional.”
• PTED is defined as a mental reaction to a negative life event that is perceived by the
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As a result, the individual cannot process this event and fails to readjust or adapt to this experience.
What type of events can cause PTED?
• Conflict at work
• Death in the family
• Bullying
• Separation/Experiencing loss
• Unemployment
• Straining
-discrimination
-negative intention
-inferiority
“A group of 118 people all reporting conflict at work were evaluated with the LIPT questionnaire, the PTED self-rating scale and a guided psychological interview. 91.5% proved to be affected by a PTED, the slight majority males, aged between 31 and 40 years and subjected to bullying.”
Diagnostic Criteria for PTED by the Linden et al.
• PTED can be consider a form of Adjustment Disorder. There is a stressor present, intrusive memories, and distress/emotional disturbance, but there are no periods of remission as seen in AD.
• Unlike depression, where there is a dysfunction in mood regulation (biological or psychological cause), PTED involves a dysfunction in the regulation of the meaning of the event.
Disorder PTED vs Post-Traumatic Stress
• PTSD served as a model for