Relationship Disorders Angry and Hostile Relationship Disorder
Interactions are harsh and abrupt, lack emotional reciprocity. Relationship conveys to clinician anger and hostility.
- Parent insensitivity, mostly if infant is demanding
- Physical handling is abrupt
- Parent may tease infant, taunt
- Infant may be frightened, anxious, inhibited, impulsive, or diffusely aggressive
- Child may be defiant or resistant toward parent
- Child may be fearful, avoidant and vigilant
- Child, tendency to concrete behavior rather than fantasy or imagination
- Parent child interaction is hostile or angry
- Tension between parent and infant lack of enjoyment or enthusiasm
- Child’s affect maybe constricted
Psychological involvement
- Parent may resent child’s needs (due to stressors or own interpretations)
- Parent may see child as his dependent parents
- Sees age appropriate independence as defiance or attempt to control
- Parent project neg. feelings to infant.