Editing Anger management (section)

== Associated scholars ==

=== Seneca ===
{{Main|Seneca the Younger}}
One of the first people to study anger and the control of anger was the Roman philosopher Seneca. He studied anger during his lifetime, c. 4 BC – AD 65, and from his experiences and observations, he formulated ways to control anger. This could be considered an early form of anger management. Seneca noted the importance of how to avoid becoming angry, quitting being angry, and dealing with anger in other people.<ref name=":02"/>
Before him, [[Athenodorus Cananites]] (74 BC – 7 AD) counseled [[Octavian]] to recite the alphabet before acting in anger.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Athenodorus|display=Athenodorus s.v.|volume=2|page=831}}</ref>

Another theorist who came after Seneca was [[Galen]], a Roman era philosopher, who built on the work of Seneca to formulate new ideas in the area of anger management. Galen stresses the importance of a mentor to help deal with excess anger.<ref name=":02" />

=== Peter Stearns ===
{{Main|Peter Stearns}}
Sir Peter Stearns played an important part in researching the differences in anger between genders. Stearns concluded that there are similarities between male and females experience of anger. June Crawford came up with an opposing idea about how the two genders deal with anger. Her research concluded that men and women deal with anger by different means.<ref name=":02" />

=== Raymond Novaco ===
Works from Raymond Novaco in the 1970s have contributed to many of the recent ideas on the management of anger. These ideas have led to the implementation of different anger management programs. Novaco stressed the importance of looking at the situations that led up to the anger in order to have control over the anger. He stated that anger is an emotional response to situations, and that anger occurs in three modalities, either cognitive, somaticaffective or behavioral. After discovering the anger, there should be discussion and self-examination in order to relieve the anger. This process was thought to help the client identify the situations that lead to anger and deal with the anger depending on the step that the anger is occurring in. The client is able to use different relaxation skills to reduce their anger before it advances.<ref name=":02" />