Rage dyscontrol, described and defined in Part 1 of this article (this issue), presents health care professionals with difficult and invariably urgent treatment problems, since rage outbursts disproportionate to the provocation are corrosive of relationships and readily lead to institutionalization. The manifestations of dyscontrol after traumatic brain injury are described in the light of case studies, and its precipitating organic and dynamic factors reviewed. Prerequisites for effective psychotherapy with dyscontrolled clients are defined, and a variety of treatment approaches described. Finally, the medicative control of rage is considered.
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