Anger management teaches techniques for controlling the outward expression of anger: counting to ten, removing yourself from the situation, identifying triggers and rehearsing alternative responses. These techniques can prevent individual outbursts, and they have real value in crisis moments. What they do not do is address why the anger is so intense in the first place. A man who learns to contain his rage through management techniques still feels the full force of it internally. He has learned to hold it in, not to understand it. For chronic anger that is rooted in unprocessed emotions or early relational patterns, containment without understanding is a temporary solution that requires constant effort.
Dr. David Steinbok provides an alternative approach for adults in Boca Raton whose anger has not responded to management-based interventions. As a therapist who understands why someone is angry all the time, his psychodynamic method works to identify and process the emotional material that the anger is protecting. When that material is addressed, the anger often moderates because the internal pressure driving it has been relieved.
