Michael Linden is a German psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...

 in the Charité

Charité

The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....

 University Hospital in Berlin

Berlin

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.

He was the first publishing on Post-traumatic embitterment disorder

Post-traumatic embitterment disorder

Post-traumatic embitterment disorder is a proposed disorder modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder. Some psychiatrists are proposing this as a mental disorder because they believe there are people who have become so bitter they can barely function.-Scientific History: First Described in...

s. Furthermore, he is editor of the journals Primary Care Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, Pharmacopsychiatry and the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. In 1997 he was the recipient of the Research Award in Psychogeriatrics of the International Psychogeriatric Association.

He is married with Evelyn Linden and has two sons and one daughter. He is member of the Roman-Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa (Berlin-Lankwitz)

Mater Dolorosa is a Roman Catholic parish and church in Berlin-Lankwitz in Germany. Mater Dolorosa belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin...

 in Berlin-Lankwitz and member of the board of directors

Board of directors

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 of its legal, independent foundation.

Publications

• The Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder, Linden, M., Rotter, M., Baumann, K., Lieberei, B. (editors), Hogrefe & Huber-Verlag, 2007

External links

• Curriculum Vitae - Michael Linden (PDF-Datei; 39 kB)
• Prof. Dr. Michael Linden (German)