Nearly all anger is part of a game of 'Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch' (NIGYSOB).   ('Thank you for giving me an excuse to get angry.')  Jeder is in fact pleased at being wronged, since he has been carrying around a bag of anger since early childhood and it is a relief to vent some of it legitimately.   ('Who wouldn't get angry under such conditions?')  The question here is whether abreaction is beneficial.  Freud long ago said it didn't do the job.  Nowadays, however, for most group therapists it is the mark of a 'good' group meeting , and leads to lively staff conferences.  Everybody is delighted and exhilarated and relieved when a patient 'expresses anger.

• anger
• freud
• negative emotions
• society
• transactional analysis
• the fourth way