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Peer reviewedFiedler, Ellen D. – Roeper Review, 1998
This essay explores the relationship between denial of anger and denial of self in light of two aspects of Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration--the levels of emotional development and the psychic overexcitabilities. It suggests that issues for gifted children are exacerbated by their emotional intensity and offers strategies to help…
Descriptors: Anger, Defense Mechanisms, Denial (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education
