Understanding Anger Disorders

Name: Understanding Anger Disorders
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ISBN: 9780195170795

ISBN-10: 0195170792

ISBN-13: 9780195170795

Edition: 2006

Authors: Raymond DiGiuseppe, Raymond Chip Tafrate

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Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern science of abnormal psychology and mental disorders, it has been written off as merely an emotional symptom and excluded from most accepted systems of psychiatric diagnosis. Yet despite the lack of scientific recognition, anger-related violence is often in the news, and courts are increasingly mandating anger management treatment. It is time for a fresh scientific examination of one of the most fundamental human emotions and what happens when it becomes pathological, and this thorough, persuasive book offers precisely…

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English




Anger : the forgotten emotion



Ubiquitous and intangible : the problem of defining anger



How anger differs from other emotions



Theories of anger and aggression



Anger as a mediator of violence



A proposed model of the relationship between anger and aggression



Behavioral models of anger



Cognitive models of anger



Anger and axis I pathology



Anger and depression



Anger and personality disorders



Objections to formalizing anger disorders



Functional and dysfunctional anger



Proposed criteria for anger disorders



Subtypes of disturbed anger



A review of the anger treatment-outcome literature : what we know works



Roadblocks to successful treatment of angry clients



Preparing clients for anger treatment



A comprehensive treatment model for anger disorders



Epilogue