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Evaluation and treatment of rage in children and adolescents
M W Mandoki1, G S Sumner, K Matthews-Ferrari
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville 32209.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Rage is characterized by an unpredictable and primitive display of violence that is out of proportion to the provoking event and often threatens serious self-injury or harm to others. New insight into the pathogenesis of unpredictable violent behavior has been gained largely as a result of neurochemical, neuropsychological and brain imaging studies. This article examines episodic rage from a neuropsychiatric perspective. Three cases illustrating the evaluation and treatment of rage in childhood and adolescence are presented.