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Anger and Hypertension
The causes of chronically elevated blood pressure, formally known as hypertension (HT), are not well understood by medical scientists and practitioners although there has been a long-standing belief that mental or emotional factors may be involved. During the 1930s-1950s, psychoanalytically oriented practitioners and researchers, representing the psychosomatic movement, emphasized that mental and emotional distress can contribute to the development of physical disorders. Two leaders of the psychosomatic movement, Flanders Dunbar and Franz Alexander, proposed that inhibition of angry feelings ...
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