Anger that Destroys and Anger that Heals: Handling Hostility in Group Analysis and in Dynamic Brief Psychotherapy

Conference

“…She asked him straight:`Are we psychoanalysing my father?'. That was the same contained anger, expressed in a nondestructive, pointed fashion that Davanloo elicits through his head-on confrontation and that I came to call the`healing anger' (Molnos 1986b). It is the anger that appears when the defences are disrupted.…”