Women's Anger: Clinical and Developmental Perspectives

About this book

First published in 2000. Womens Anger brings together in an integrated presentation of anger over the lifespan theoretical understandings clinical experiences empirical research and the lived experience of anger for women and girls. Womens Anger offers a combined focus of feminist and developmental perspectives on anger the psychology of emotion and applied theory. It also focuses on the adaptive and functional aspects of womens anger rather than on the traditional psychopathology-based models. The reader will be introduced to several clinical illustrations from actual clients as well as to personal accounts of women and girls talking about their own perspectives on anger.