A Clinical Exploration of Moving Anger Forward: Intimacy,Anger, and Creative Freedom

This paper is an exploration of anger and its potential to impede or facilitate creative or analytic process. Conceptually I consider anger in terms of cognitive-affective linking and unlinking, and transference-countertransference enactments, and the repetition compulsion as an encoded “second language,” with reference to neuroscience research findings. At its experiential center, this paper tells the story of a story that could not be told about anger in a distressed clinical process.