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Treating anger in psychotherapy: Introduction and cases
Author(s) -
Norcross John C.,
Kobayashi Mireika
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199903)55:3<275::aid-jclp1>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - anger , psychology , hostility , conceptualization , psychotherapist , aggression , session (web analytics) , convergence (economics) , clinical psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , world wide web , computer science , economics , economic growth
Although client anger is a ubiquitous presenting problem for psychotherapy and a challenging in‐session phenomenon for the psychotherapist, it has been oddly neglected by the clinical community. This article introduces an issue of In Session devoted to the conceptualization and treatment of anger in psychotherapy from multiple theoretical perspectives. The authors generate consensual definitions of anger, aggression, and hostility and then provide two case vignettes that the contributors address in their subsequent articles. Both technical diversity and strategic convergence, it is suggested, are required to enhance the effective treatment of anger disorders. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 275–282, 1999.