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Addressing a Lack of Awareness of Anger | Identifying Specific Angry Fantasies | Identifying Guilty Reactions to Anger | Identifying Expectations of Punishment | Exploring the Link Between Competitiveness and Aggression | Becoming More Comfortable With Assertiveness | Recognizing Anger Directed Toward the Self | References

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Typically, patients respond to narcissistic injury with angry reactions and fantasies (Jacobson 1971; Rado 1928; Stone 1986). They tend to have difficulty tolerating these aggressive feelings and may deny them. In attempting to approach the reactive anger, it is essential that the therapist take a nonjudgmental stance, because patients are often critical of these feelings and expect a negative reaction from others.

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