Does the fear of being unsafe and not in control express itself as anger, or does it use anger as a kind of denial of the fear? One view of clinical depression explains it as sourced in suppressed anger. Anger turned, perhaps, against the self, because fear—fear of being harmed, and fear of doing harm—prevents the anger from turning against the people or circumstances causing it. If so, no wonder a lot of people are depressed, and no wonder so many of them are women. They are living with an unexploded bomb. So how do you defuse the bomb, or when and how can you explode it safely, even
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