Conditions where individuals have psychological difficulty recognizing or dealing emotionally with their own feelings of anger, irritation, resentment,
hostility, or propensity toward
aggression. Problems with the management of hostility and aggression may be revealed in disguised or symbolic forms such as: worried preoccupation about one's own or others' imagined hostility; aggressive fantasies, daydreams, or night dreams, and; unusual interest in violent events or activities. (See
acceptance-rejection syndrome;
personality subtheory)
