Rage

Rage

A patient who stubbornly refuses a therapeutic intervention or a patient who appears threateningly angry during the therapy session:
rage and anger can make treatment difficult and have a negative impact on the healing process. The author employs a range of case studies and therapy dialogues to show what constitutes rage, how to recognise it and, above all, whether it is possible to work effectively on this emotion in psychotherapy and how to do this.

This new series ‘Emotion Work in Psychotherapy’ focuses on how to deal with individual emotions in psychotherapy. This new book in the series focuses on the basic emotion ‘rage’. Rage is too simply labelled as problematic: you shouldn't express it but suppress it, if possible. Rage can thus assume several different forms: passive-aggressive behaviour when it is suppressed or aggressiveviolent behaviour when the rage is uncontrolled. It is possible to learn how to deal with rage and anger in a healthy way.

• A new perspective on emotion work: focus on individual emotions
• Emotions as a trending topic in psychotherapy
• Transdiagnostic approach

TARGET GROUP
Psychological and medical psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training