Abstract
Anger is one of our utmost vital and influential emotions. It is considered vital for survival and can cause substantial hindrances in keeping on for long, pertinaciously hitting the mind interrelated with emotion, behavior, thinking, and association. It is a feeling that refers to a strong comfortless and awkward reaction to anticipated provocation, threat, or hurt. When individual boundaries get ruined, then wrath gets rousted. Some even express that making out with anger can also happen when an individual feels their confines are being or going to be breached.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Akhtar S (1995) Some reflections on the nature of hatred and its emergence in the treatment process: Discussion of Kernberg’s chapter “Hatred as a core affect of aggression”. The birth of hatred: Developmental, clinical, and technical aspects of intense aggression, pp. 83–101.
Aquilina C (1991) Violence by psychiatric in-patients. Med Sci Law 31(4):306–312
Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Van IJzendoorn MH (1993) A psychometric study of the adult attachment interview: reliability and discriminant validity. Dev Psychol 29(5):870
Bandura A (1973) Aggression: a social learning analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs
Bandura A (1978) Social learning theory of aggression. J Commun 28(3):12–29
Bandura A et al (1963) Vicarious reinforcement and imitative learning. J Abnorm Soc Psychol 67(6):601
Berkowitz L (1993) Aggression: its causes, consequences, and control. Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, New York
Berzins LG, Trestman RL (2004) The development and implementation of dialectical behavior therapy in forensic settings. Int J Forensic Ment Health 3(1):93–103
Bjøkly S (1999) A ten-year prospective study of aggression in a special secure unit for dangerous patients. Scand J Psychol 40(1):57–63
Bjørkly S (2001) Aggresjonens psykologi. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo
Bornstein RF (2001) Clinical utility of the Rorschach Inkblot Method: reframing the debate. J Pers Assess 77(1):39–47
Brenner C (1971) The psychoanalytic concept of aggression. Int J Psycho-Anal 52:137–144
Buss AH (1963) Physical aggression in relation to different frustrations. J Abnorm Soc Psychol 67(1):1
Calvert SL et al (2017) The American Psychological Association Task Force assessment of violent video games: science in the service of public interest. Am Psychol 72(2):126
DiGiuseppe R, Tafrate RC (2007) Understanding anger disorders. Oxford University Press, New York
Dollard J (1939) Frustration and aggression. Yale University Press, New Haven
Dubin WR (1989) The role of fantasies, countertransference, and psychological defenses in patient violence. Psychiatr Serv 40(12):1280–1283
Fonagy P (2003) Towards a developmental understanding of violence. Br J Psychiatry 183(3):190–192
Freud S (1920) Beyond the pleasure principle. The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. Volume XVIII.” Trans. by J. Strachey. Hogarth Press & the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, pp 7–64
Harris W et al (1964) Circulatory+ humoral responses to fear+ anger. J Lab Clin Med. Mosby-Year Book Inc., St Louis
Hogan PC (2011) What literature teaches us about emotion. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Howells K et al (1997) Developing programmes for violent offenders. Legal Criminol Psychol 2(1):117–128
Kalogjera IJ et al (1989) Impact of therapeutic management on use of seclusion and restraint with disruptive adolescent inpatients. Psychiatr Serv 40(3):280–285
Katz P, Kirkland FR (1990) Violence and social structure on mental hospital wards. Psychiatry 53(3):262–277
Kemp S, Strongman KT (1995) Anger theory and management: a historical analysis. Am J Psychol 108:397–417
Linehan MM (1993) Skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder. Guilford press
Lion JR, Pasternak SA (1973) Countertransference reactions to violent patients. Am J Psychiatry 130(2):207–210
Mahalik JR et al (2003) Masculinity scripts, presenting concerns, and help seeking: implications for practice and training. Prof Psychol Res Pract 34(2):123
Marcus-Newhall A et al (2000) Displaced aggression is alive and well: a meta-analytic review. J Pers Soc Psychol 78(4):670
Nestor PG (2002) Mental disorder and violence: personality dimensions and clinical features. Am J Psychiatry 159(12):1973–1978
Nijman H et al (1997) Prevention of aggressive incidents on a closed psychiatric ward. Psychiatr Serv 48(5):694–698
Novaco RW (2013) Reducing anger-related offending: what works
Okey JL (1992) Human aggression: the etiology of individual differences. J Humanist Psychol 32(1):51–64
Owen C et al (1998) Violence and aggression in psychiatric units. Psychiatr Serv 49(11):1452–1457
Özyeşil Z (2012) Five factor personality traits as predictor of trait anger and anger expression. Educ Sci/Egitim ve Bilim 37(163):322
Pepitone A (1974) Aggression-A Matter of stimulus and reinforcement control
Shah A et al (1991) Violence among psychiatric inpatients. Acta Psychiatr Scand 84(4):305–309
Shahsavarani AM, Noohi S (2013) Explanation of bases, methods, instrumentsof anger assessment, and anger control as well as its naturalization. Report to Research Center of Behavioral Sciences, Baghyatellah Institute, Tehran
Shahsavarani AM, Noohi S (2015) Explaining the bases and fundamentals of anger: a literature review. Int J Med Rev 1(4):143–149
Tedeschi JT (1983) Social influence theory and aggression. In: Aggression: theoretical and empirical reviews, vol 1, pp 135–162
Tedeschi JT, Felson RB (1994) Violence, aggression, and coercive actions. Am Psychol Assoc
Videbeck SL (2006) Psychiatric mental health nursing. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia
Yadav PK et al (2017) Anger; its impact on human body. Innov J Health Sci 4(5):3–5
Zillmann D (1979) Hostility and aggression. L. Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Tariq, A., Bacha, U. (2022). Introduction and Definition of Anger. In: Hashim, H.T., Alexiou, A. (eds) The Psychology of Anger. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16605-1_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16605-1_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-16604-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-16605-1
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and PsychologyBehavioral Science and Psychology (R0)