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Understand Anger and Guilt
Learn how anger and guilt arise from attempts to shift power balance and from self-assessment of strength.
Communication Function
Recognize the nonverbal messages anger and guilt convey, their purposes, and the patterns of their expression.
Clinical Implications
Identify the purpose of emotional reactions and alternative behaviors that fulfill the same function.
About the Course
In clinical practice, anger and guilt are often treated primarily as maladaptive reactions to be reduced or controlled. This course proposes a different perspective: that these emotions function as structured forms of interpersonal communication. This course is, therefore, not a generic overview of emotional regulation. It presents a structured, theoretically grounded framework for understanding emotional dynamics within therapeutic work. Early participants have described the framework as intellectually engaging and directly applicable in clinical practice Drawing on a message-centered framework, the training examines anger and guilt as closely related phenomena whose adaptive functions, relational implications and maladaptive expressions can be systematically understood. Rather than focusing solely on reducing emotional intensity, the course clarifies the communicative function of emotion and the goal-directed purposes it serves within interpersonal dynamics. By identifying the purpose an emotional reaction is attempting to achieve or prevent, clinicians can guide clients toward alternative behaviors that fulfill the same function more adaptively and efficiently. In this way, maladaptive patterns are replaced rather than merely suppressed. Participants explore the structural relationship between anger and guilt and consider the implications of this perspective for clinical formulation and intervention.
About the Instructor
Dr. Valery Fradkov, LCSW, ScD, is Founder and Clinical Director of the Advanced Psychology Institute and developer of Message-Centered Psychology. He is a clinician, educator, and researcher with training in both science and clinical psychology and more than 20 years of experience in clinical practice, supervision, and teaching. His work integrates theoretical modeling with clinical application, with particular focus on the structure and function of emotional and nonverbal communication. Prior to his career in psychology, Dr. Fradkov served as a university professor and NASA researcher in physics and engineering. This interdisciplinary background informs his structured and analytical approach to relational and emotional dynamics.
Deepen Your Understanding of Anger and Guilt
Gain practical, clinically grounded insights into how anger and guilt function as emotional signals, and how this understanding transforms therapeutic work.
$45.00