Difficulty tolerating anger.
Physical or emotional separation from a significant person both in childhood and in adult life
Situations of increased work responsibilities may trigger it
Perception of parents as controlling, shocking, cynical, and demanding
Internal representations of relationships involving sexual or physical abuse
A chronic sense of feeling trapped
A vicious cycle of anger at parental rejecting behavior followed by anxiety that the fantasy will destroy the tie to parents.
Failure of signal anxiety function in ego related to self fragmentation and self-other boundary confusion
Typical defense mechanisms:
reaction formation,
undoing,
somatization,
externalization
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