Tools for breaking free from mindless anger and the suffering it
brings.
Uncontrolled anger can be devastating, yet many people with serious
anger issues don't know how to change their behavior. In Overcoming
Destructive Anger, psychologist Bernard Golden, an anger management
specialist, offers concrete tools for turning destructive anger into
healthy anger.
Dr. Golden draws on both compassion-focused therapy--a model for change
that encompasses and expands on cognitive behavioral therapy,
mindfulness, and practices in compassion and self-compassion--and
theories of emotional intelligence. He teaches readers to recognize, sit
with, and move beyond the triggers that cause destructive anger. Anger
logs and other exercises, together with stories of people who were
challenged by anger and able to overcome their outbursts, allow readers
to explore the source of their anger and recognize its destructive
potential. Emphasizing anger's link to habits of thinking, feeling, and
physical reactions, Dr. Golden offers multiple strategies for coping
with current hurts as well as past wounds. And he directs readers to
helpful websites, books, and films.
Dr. Golden explains why destructive anger happens and how it can
contribute to divorce, estranged families, job loss, addictions, and
even imprisonment. Emphasizing the importance of making calm,
constructive choices and cultivating self-empathy, this guide will free
people with destructive anger--and those around them--to live more
fulfilling lives.
