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Chronic Anger and Health

Michael Basta

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Here is an article that I found from the New York Times dated June 23, 2016 titled "How You Fight With Your Partner May Affect Different Body Parts." It is written about Dr. John Gottman's long time collaborator, Dr. Robert Levenson, of U.C. Berkeley, and refers to his 20 year longitudinal study of couples interactions-reported in the journal Emotion- that demonstrates a correlation between chronic anger and cardiac problems, and also showed a correlation between stonewalling and musculoskeletal problems (like back and neck pain). Click here to read