Aktuelles State-of-the-Art-Wissen in knapper, präziser Darstellung über alle Fragen zur psychosomatischen Medizin in der Rehabilitation. Dargestellt werden evidenzbasierte Reha-Therapiestandards (ambulant und stationär; psychodynamisch und verhaltenstherapeutisch) sowie alle Formen der Prävention. Kästen, Tabellen und Übersichten zeigen Ihnen das Wichtigste auf einen Blick und helfen Ihnen, sich die Inhalte dauerhaft zu merken. Von den Grundlagen über multimodale Konzepte der Rehabilitation, sozialmedizinische Beurteilung, somatische Fachgebiete bis zu Schnittstellen und Versorgungsstrukturen, Reha-Nachsorge bleiben keine Fragen offen. Das Buch beantwortet kurz und prägnant Fragen zu den Themen: das Bio-Psycho-soziale Konzept der Rehabilitation / Grundlagen / Diagnostik und Indikation in der Rehabilitation / multimodales Konzept der Rehabilitation / Prozess der psychosomatischen Rehabilitation / sozialmedizinische Beurteilung / Reha-Qualitätssicherung / Störungsbilder in der Psychosomatischen Rehabilitation - ICD-Perspektive / Problemfelder in der Psychosomatischen Rehabilitation - ICF-Perspektive / somatische Fachgebiete / Schnittstellen und Versorgungsstrukturen / Reha-Nachsorge / Reha-Forschung sowie den Ausblick auf Reha 2030.

Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acute treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. The connection between heart disease and the psyche as well as the psychosocial concomitant symptoms is well documented. Contents: • Basics of cardiology and psychosomatic medicine; • Doctor-patient relationship; • Ethical issues, gender effects, psychocardiology along the lifespan; • Psychosomatic problem areas and comorbidities in coronary heart disease: Personality factors, risk behaviours, depression, anxiety disorders; • Specific problems in other cardiovascular diseases and treatment settings; • Diagnostics; • Interdisciplinary cooperation, treatment and rehabilitation; • Training courses in psychocardiology. The book offers cardiologists, internists, general practitioners, psychotherapists and psychologists all practice-relevant basics to be able to treat their patients in the best possible way. It is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book may read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Embitterment is a distinct state of mood known to everyone. It can be seen in the context of exceptional though “normal” negative life events. It is an emotional reaction e.g. to humiliation, to being severely disappointed by others, or to violations of basic values. Embitterment is accompanied by other emotions like feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, poor moods and a lack of drive, and aggression towards oneself and others. It can end in suicide or even murder-suicide and in a distinct pathological state known as “Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED)”. But despite the high prevalence rates, the detrimental effects on individuals and its forensic and societal importance, embitterment has yet to receive due scientific attention. In this book pioneers in embitterment research summarize the current knowledge on embitterment, its triggers, phenomenology and consequences. The work is intended to stimulate international debate and to contribute to a better understanding of embitterment and a deeper appreciation of the impact of exceptional but normal negative life events on psychological well-being.

No one is more conscious of the faults of this work than the author. Therefore some self -criticism should be woven into this foreward. There are two possible methodologically pure solutions to this book's theme: a de scriptive catalog of the pictures couched in the language of natural science and accom panied by a clinical and psychopathological description of the patients, or a completely metaphysically based investigation of the process of pictorial composition. According to the latter, these unusual works, explained psychologically, and the exceptional circum stances on which they are based would be integrated as a playful variation of human expression into a total picture of the ego under the concept of an inborn creative urge, behind which we would then only have to discover a universal need for expression as an instinctive foundation. In brief, such an investigation would remain in the realm of phenomenologically observed existential forms, completely independent of psychiatry and aesthetics. The compromise between these two pure solutions must necessarily be piecework and must constantly defend itself against the dangers of fragmentation. We are in danger of being satisfied with pure description, the novelistic expansion of details and questions of principle; pitfalls would be very easy to avoid if we had the use of a clearly outlined method. But the problems of a new, or at least never seriously worked, field defy the methodology of every established subject.