Revenge after trauma: Theoretical outline

Embitterment: Societal, Psychological, and Clinical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 42-69

  Gäbler, Ira ^a   Maercker, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-99741-3_5     Document Type: Chapter

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