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Richard P. Fox, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1974;31(6):807-811.

Abstract
A distinction is drawn between the aggression of combat soldiers reacting adaptively to situations of real danger and a type of combat aggression that is personally motivated by a quest for revenge. In contrast to the adaptive aggression that posed few postcombat difficulties, the latter type of aggression resulted in regressive ego (and superego) functioning and led to uncontrolled rages, combat atrocities, and postcombat difficulties in the handling of hostility and aggression.

This latter type of aggression was traced to narcissistic injuries and subsequent narcissistic rage, often the consequence of the death of a combat buddy (loss of a mirror relationship).

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California at Irvine, and the Adolescent Inpatient Unit, Orange County Medical Center, Calif.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 17, 1974.

Reprint requests to the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California at Irvine, 101 City Dr S, Orange, CA 92668 (Dr. Fox).

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