Les Greenberg

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Les Greenberg, who developed, initially developed Emotionally Focused Therapy, was a Gestalt therapist.

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And he renamed it and rebranded it as a way to try to get, you know, more, um, recognition about empirical validation.

So, if anger isn't the thing itself, then what is? There's a whole school of therapy built on this distinction.

Leslie Greenberg, who developed emotion-focused therapy, separates what he calls primary emotions, your first direct response to something, from secondary emotions, which are reactions to that first response.

Now, anger is very often the secondary emotion.

It's the reaction.