ABSTRACT
This chapter, along with Chapters 10 and 11, is intended to assert an important role for a relational therapeutic approach within a medical context. In this chapter I use Transactional Analysis to explore how anger and rage issues present and are worked with in six different personality adaptations (Ware, 1983), which correspond to some of the personality disorders cited in the DSM-IV (APA, 2000), namely, the histrionic, paranoid, obsessive compulsive, schizoid, passive aggressive and anti-social diagnoses. Fragments of case studies are presented which include a description of each personality type, identify the specific anger and rage therapeutic tasks and possible pitfalls, and give a flavour of a relational approach in action.
