Addressing the Double Bind of Women’s Anger After Trauma

“Compounding recovery from problem anger after trauma is that healthy anger in women is pathologized. Societal forces, some universal and others culturally specific, include the perceived values of femininity, motherhood, and inappropriateness of anger in women. This is not an outdated notion—contemporary research has shown that women’s anger is unacceptable to 94% of individuals.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2831149

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