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1Department of Pastoral Services, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.
Journal of Religion and Health
|December 5, 2013
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The conventional wisdom in counseling circles has been that persons filled with anger basically need catharsis. Recent thinking challenges this assumption. New questions arise, such as why is the anger necessary, and whose responsibility is it to deal with it? Some dynamics are discussed, and two case illustrations are presented.
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