Women’s Anger: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives

Socialization and culture play key roles in shaping the unhealthy ways in which feminine anger is negotiated. This text reveals the complex nature of the anger experience for women and girls as both an internal phenomenon and in its interrelationships with interpersonal interactions and the broader social environment. The book brings together theoretical understandings, clinical experiences, empirical research, and the lived experience of anger for women and girls, in an integrated presentation of anger over the lifespan. It offers a combined focus on feminist and developmental perspectives on anger, the psychology of emotion, and applied theory. It also focuses on the adaptive and functional aspects of women’s anger rather than on the traditional, psychopathology-based models.