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Anger: the unrecognized emotion in emotional disorders
Abstract
Anger plays a prominent definitional role in some psychological disorders currently widely scattered across DSM‐5 categories (e.g., intermittent explosive disorder, borderline personality disorder). But the presence and consequences of anger in the emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety disorders, depressive disorders) remain sparsely examined. In this review, we examine the presence of anger in the emotional disorders and find that anger is elevated across these disorders and, when it is present, is associated with negative consequences, including greater symptom severity and worse treatment response. Based on this evidence, anger appears to be an important and understudied emotion in the development, maintenance, and treatment of emotional disorders.First author draf- Article
- Social sciences
- Psychology, clinical
- Psychology
- Anger
- Emotion
- Emotional disorders
- Transdiagnostic features
- Borderline personality disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Intermittent explosive disorder
- Generalized anxiety disorder
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- DSM-IV anxiety
- Substance dependent inpatients
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Afghanistan war veterans
- Coronary heart disease
- Cognitive sciences