Anger in therapy

Henry Kenneth Loeffler

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Anger in therapy

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Henry Kenneth Loeffler. Anger In Therapy. Andover Newton Theological School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1d668c92-9cd5-4324-805c-60f110084bf7.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

H. K. Loeffler. Anger in therapy. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1d668c92-9cd5-4324-805c-60f110084bf7

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Henry Kenneth Loeffler. Anger In Therapy. Andover Newton Theological School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1d668c92-9cd5-4324-805c-60f110084bf7.

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Henry Kenneth Loeffler

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Abstract

This study investigates the use of anger and aggression, particularly by the therapist, in the counseling process. Angry, aggressive feelings and their results have usually been the symptom, overt or covert, presented to the therapist. Medicine shows that aggression and anger are necessary for the cure of illness. When a patient loses his ability to fight, he has lost his ability to cure himself or be healed. Inability to constructively use anger results in anxiety, fear, depression and guilt. A review of the literature, starting with Freud, shows researchers using the expression of anger in therapy as early as the post-WW1 era. Psychiatrists began with aggressive behavior, drugs,hypnosis, and have moved into implosion theory, desensitization, primal scream, and silent abregation. Social learning theories have added the possibility of unlearning negative behavior. After therapists are comfortable with expressions of negative emotions of anger, they can set limits for self and client to keep feelings from intermingling. Then they will be using anger to control the client's behavior while provoking expression of hidden feelings.

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