Saw something yesterday that I found interesting.
That someone has said that the only true emotion is love. That all the negative ones are really fear or stemming from fear. Woh! Let me think about that for a while. Can't really say for now what I think about it but I just found it interesting.

For the moment I would like to add to this old thread by saying chronic or explosive anger can so often be found to have it's root in a past traumatic incident. Exploring this and nailing it would seem to be removing a past thing that impacts on the now, so controlling it would then not be an issue. If one could exhaust these, there may not be any anger left to control (other than normal justifiable anger of course).

If anger results from PTSD as it often does, it stands to reason that traumatic incidents, that don't qualify as being part of PTSD (and we all have heaps of those), will, some of them, also contain the seeds of anger that is restimulated by present time situations or incidents. So, getting rid of all those would surely get rid of a lot of trouble making baggage. Looked at another way, imagine the time and effort trying to control your anger if it's only really troublesome source is past stuff that is triggered by stressors.
Cheers,