"I felt violated": women's experience of childbirth-associated anger.

Purpose: To investigate the lived experience of childbirth-associated anger. DESIGN Descriptive phenomenology.

Methods: Open-ended interviews were conducted with 10 women who had experienced the phenomenon of interest and volunteered to participate.

Anger and cancer: an analysis of the linkages.

The purposes of this article are to review literature on anger's link to cancer, to analyze the state of the science in this area, and to propose some directions for future research. Extremely low anger scores have been noted in numerous studies of patients with cancer. Such low scores suggest suppression, repression, or restraint of anger.

"It wasn't working. " Women's experiences with short-term breastfeeding.

Purpose: To investigate the lived experiences of women who initiate breastfeeding but stop within the first 2 weeks after birth.

Design: Phenomenology.

Methods: Interviews were recorded on audio tape, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes by an interdisciplinary group of researchers.

Living with postpartum depression: the father's experience.

Purpose: To derive a deeper understanding of postpartum depression (PPD) and its impact on the family through the experiences of fathers whose spouses suffered from this disorder.

Design: Phenomenology.

Methods: Eight men were interviewed.

It hurts most around the heart: a phenomenological exploration of women's anger.

Women's anger experience has been poorly understood and insufficiently researched. Yet the emotion of anger is vitally important to women's physical and mental health, and to the quality of their relationships. This phenomenological study was undertaken as an expansion and extension of the Women's Anger Study, the first large survey of the genesis, manifestations and correlates of anger in American women.