The Compassionate Mind Approach to Managing Your Anger (Compassion Focused Therapy)
by Russell Kolts
We can all get angry from time to time but when it gets out of hand it can have a serious impact on many aspects of our lives. As well as having an impact on our physical and mental health and our ability to engage in healthy relationships, it can also potentially have an enormous impact on society. The media is rife with stories of domestic violence, tragic stories of shaken babies, road-rage incidents and bullying.Mounting evidence suggests that all this anger can be harmful to us in a number...
Do you explode with anger at times and regret it later? Do you feel irritated and aggravated for no apparent reason? Do you suppress your anger because you feel that you may hurt someone close to you, jeopardize your job or your marriage? If so, you need to learn to make friends with your anger and to express it in healthy ways instead of letting anger make a victim out of you. Anger is not the bad guy, aggression is. Anger is a feeling that arises when our safety is threatened, it is an emotio...
Clears up misconceptions about anger, explains how to control anger, and discusses spouse and child abuse.
The Compassionate Mind Approach to Difficult Emotions (Compassion Focused Therapy)
by Chris Irons
Emotions bring purpose, pleasure and meaning to our lives. However, for many people, they are synonymous with distress, pain and suffering. Anger and rage can wreck relationships and cause problems at work; anxiety can prevent us from socialising or engaging in things we would like to; sadness can feel overwhelming and never ending. These types of difficulties are often referred to as emotion regulation problems, and can prevent us from developing stable and happy relationships, communicating ou...
How to Keep Your Cool (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
by Seneca
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from "On Anger," pr...
This is THE book on anger, the first book to explain exactly why we get mad, what anger really is - and how to cope with and use it. Often confused with hostility and violence, anger is fundamentally different from these aggressive behaviours and in fact can be a healthy and powerful force in our lives. What is anger? Who is allowed to be angry? How can we manage our anger? How can we use it? It might seem like a day doesn't go by without some troubling explosion of anger, whether we're shoutin...
Anger Management (Practical Emotional Intelligence, #2)
by James W Williams