This post is in response to Anger Problems: A Smokescreen for Fear-Shame Phobia By Steven Stosny, Ph.D. Since fellow PT blogger Dr. Steven Stosny and I both share similar concerns with the increasing ...

Populism is having a defining moment again, though it never really went away. This approach to politics surged after Donald Trump made his appearance on the stage in 2015, along with Sen. Bernie ...

Anger provides a way to temporarily numb or avoid pain, which is why, when you bang your thumb hanging a picture, you don't pray. It’s a survival-based function of anger—if you’re being attacked by a ...

Populism certainly is rhetorically effective and electorally useful. However, the problems come when anger itself becomes the organizing principle of politics, and distrust is no longer a starting ...