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Article: Anger and depressed affect: interindividual and intraindividual perspectives.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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Psychoanalytic theorists have postulated that anger turned inward plays a role in the etiology of depression. In a major statement of this view, Freud (1959) presented a complex scenario in which anger aroused in the failure to win a loved object is not expressed toward the rejecting person; rather, in an unconscious process, it is turned against the self, giving rise to feelings of worthlessness and depression.
Researchers have studied the relation between anger and depressed affect extensively. Those investigations have taken several forms, including comparisons of levels of hostility in depressed patients and normal controls (Riley, Treiber, & Woods, 1989), ...