Comments on: in the movie "Anger Management" is the scene where they are hitting pillows in "Therapy Class" a real thing? http://www.anger-problems.com/anger-management-for-children/in-the-movie-anger-management-is-the-scene-where-they-are-hitting-pillows-in-therapy-class-a-real-thing Solve Your Anger Problems Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: PSYCHOLOGIST (J E B [Glos]). http://www.anger-problems.com/anger-management-for-children/in-the-movie-anger-management-is-the-scene-where-they-are-hitting-pillows-in-therapy-class-a-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-1110 PSYCHOLOGIST (J E B [Glos]). Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:46:59 +0000 http://www.anger-problems.com/anger-management-for-children/in-the-movie-anger-management-is-the-scene-where-they-are-hitting-pillows-in-therapy-class-a-real-thing#comment-1110 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ei=-78KS5XsCo-v4QaFuKXTCw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=anger+management+hitting+cushions&spell=1<br><b>References : </b><br> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ei=-78KS5XsCo-v4QaFuKXTCw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAYQBSgA&q=anger+management+hitting+cushions&spell=1
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]]> By: MBK http://www.anger-problems.com/anger-management-for-children/in-the-movie-anger-management-is-the-scene-where-they-are-hitting-pillows-in-therapy-class-a-real-thing/comment-page-1#comment-1109 MBK Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:18:59 +0000 http://www.anger-problems.com/anger-management-for-children/in-the-movie-anger-management-is-the-scene-where-they-are-hitting-pillows-in-therapy-class-a-real-thing#comment-1109 I don't know the movie, but what you describe is definitely real. The 'old psychological name' is "catharsis". Some people say it's good because they believe that "letting the anger out" on an inanimate object,such as a pillow, expresses harmlessly a feeling that has previously been suppressed, and that suppressed feelings are harmful. People get to feel angry again because they have thwarted desires. I believe that working up anger (even at a pillow) puts harmful thoughts into one's mind and into the world and does not benefit anyone. Sure, it is better to beat a pillow than your wife, so if you are already feeling angry right now, go beat a pillow yes. But to stir dormant anger? What for? Anger is genuinely countered by opposing good qualities like love, peacefulness, calmness, gentleness, patience, non-attachment (to desires, and to "I") and kindness..... aikido. And by developing your non-angry powerfulness - e.g. self-esteem, gently-but-firmly assertiveness, "won't power" (how to say 'no' without saying 'f*** off'), saying how you feel without making the other person wrong (as in 'when you .... I felt upset' rather than 'you hurt me').<br><b>References : </b><br> I don’t know the movie, but what you describe is definitely real.

The ‘old psychological name’ is "catharsis".

Some people say it’s good because they believe that "letting the anger out" on an inanimate object,such as a pillow, expresses harmlessly a feeling that has previously been suppressed, and that suppressed feelings are harmful.

People get to feel angry again because they have thwarted desires. I believe that working up anger (even at a pillow) puts harmful thoughts into one’s mind and into the world and does not benefit anyone. Sure, it is better to beat a pillow than your wife, so if you are already feeling angry right now, go beat a pillow yes. But to stir dormant anger? What for? Anger is genuinely countered by opposing good qualities like love, peacefulness, calmness, gentleness, patience, non-attachment (to desires, and to "I") and kindness….. aikido. And by developing your non-angry powerfulness – e.g. self-esteem, gently-but-firmly assertiveness, "won’t power" (how to say ‘no’ without saying ‘f*** off’), saying how you feel without making the other person wrong (as in ‘when you …. I felt upset’ rather than ‘you hurt me’).
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