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(1973) Explorations in phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff.
What is anger? I find it enormously strange that I, a psychiatrist, must seriously pose such a question in this day and age and I think it is virtually astounding that the answers are not only slow in coming but are embedded in a morass of confused definitions, misconceptions, and simplistic theories. Problems of violence, destructiveness, and hate are so much with us and there seems a crying need for clarification and understanding of these phenomena and any phenomena related to them. Anger, particularly, is of crucial importance in psychiatry where it is an everyday focus of attention in our patients, whether we do clinical evaluations alone, pass out drugs, or discuss, evaluate, and analyze in psychotherapy. Yet, there has been almost no attention paid to the phenomenon of anger in psychiatric and psychological literature. When it is mentioned at all, anger is subsumed under some general category such as aggression or affect and little consideration is given to the assumptions underlying such categorization.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1999-6_17
Full citation:
Rothenberg, A. (1973)., The anatomy of anger, in D. Carr & E. Casey (eds.), Explorations in phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff, pp. 351-366.
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