"she looks back without bitterness": Wisdom as a developmental opposite of embitterment?

Embitterment: Societal, Psychological, and Clinical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 70-82

  Glück, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-99741-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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