Angry All the Time 2d

If you’ve picked up this book, chances are you’re someone with a serious anger problem. Your explosive temper has probably cost you jobs, friends, loved ones—maybe even your liberty. If it hasn’t yet, it soon will, unless you do something about it.

This book contains a powerful and straightforward system for taking control of your anger and your life. This program is not easy, and it might even be painful at times—but it works. The book will teach you how your anger escalates and what you can do to change your angry thoughts and behaviors. Then it’s your turn. When you make and keep that promise to yourself to stay calm no matter what, the happier, safer life you want will become a possibility.

With this book, you'll be able to:

• Identify the causes of your anger
• Avoid violence, blaming, and threats
• Stay calm one day at a time
• Change anger-provoking thoughts
• Ask for what you want without anger

Very angry people live in a trap. They say things they don't mean, hurt people they love, and even begin to hate themselves. The vicious cycle of problem anger is hard to break. Real change, an escape from the damaging patterns of persistent anger, requires good information and sound advice. This book, a major revision of a best-selling classic that has helped tens of thousands of people overcome problem anger, contains both. The book is organized to move readers along the shortest path to recovery: In the first section, "Understanding the Problem," readers explore the causes of their anger. Then, in the second section, "Taking Action," they learn powerful, step-by-step strategies to control their behavior, to change anger- provoking thoughts, to avoid verbal and physical violence-in short, to make the author's eight-step process of anger management a powerful force for change in their lives.

This edition includes two completely new chapters and significant revision to many of the original sections. Tips for problem solving and directing anger in positive ways, new strategies for encouraging change, and a discussion of anger styles and the effects of jealousy on problem anger are just some of the engaging new concepts.

Ronald T. Potter-Efron, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in anger management. He gives workshops and lectures on anger management throught the US and is a a certified alcohol and drug counselor. He is the author of Letting Go of Anger and Stop the Anger Now.