Understanding Anger Disorders

by Raymond Chip Tafrate and Raymond DiGiuseppe

Book Overview

Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern science of abnormal psychology and mental disorders, it has been written off as merely an emotional symptom and excluded from most accepted systems of psychiatric diagnosis. Yet despite the lack of scientific recognition, anger-related violence is often in the news, and courts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199774099
• ISBN13: 9780199774098
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"