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CONTROLLING ANGER <ul type="square">[*]
Society tries to control meanness with harsh punishment Certain emotions, however, get more and different attention than others. For instance, anxiety and depression get far more treatment, both talking therapy and drug treatment, than anger and aggression.[*]
Society relies heavily on punishment to reduce aggression and defiance of the law—a method not used with anxiety or sadness. In the case of criminals, almost the only method for changing this emotion is physical restraint—“lock them up and throw away the key”.[*]
Overall the results of using punishment to stop misbehavior have not been promising. And we do not seem highly motivated to investigate various other methods of reducing violence, hatred, and breaking the law.[*]
For people who are annoying at work or school, there are a few anger management programs (discussed later) but not nearly the variety of specialized individual treatment methods and clinics as available for sad or stressed people. It may be that angry people are not as eager to change themselves as tense or disappointed people are.[*]
It is probably also true that the victims of someone else’s anger are not very eager to help the offender change; they mostly want to stay away from them. These attitudes and conditions are part of the social circumstances that make it harder to reduce anger. [/list]
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