Anger as an outcome of high traumatic impact events. Contribution of Forensic Psychology to Medico-legal Evaluation.

Understanding violent manifestations, including anger, requires a multilevel assessment, considering personality, psychopathology, and social context. It is common for those who have experienced trauma of any kind to experience significant anger following the event. It is not as common for this to be adequately considered and assessed. Posttraumatic anger is a complex negative emotional state that can occur following one or more traumatic 2 experiences, generating a high level of agitation and instability in the individual. This can lead to behavioral changes, unstable adaptations, and activation of various coping strategies for the trauma, sometimes of a persistent, intense, and/or dysfunctional nature, up to and including possible violent behavioral evolutions. Posttraumatic rage is a construct, an issue, the outcome of stressogenic and traumatogenic events, of undoubted relevance and interest to the forensic medical, psychological and psychiatric disciplines. Parole