Anger Management Jumpstart: A 4-Session Mindfulness Path to Compassion and Change

by Pavel Somov

We’ve come to think of anger as a destructive problem, and it certainly can be. Anger can also be a profound opportunity for existential transformation. Anger Management Jumpstart is a brief, field-tested clinical curriculum for breaking the impasse of chronic anger (either for a clinician or a self-helper). This original, humanistic, solution-focused approach introduces 4 core mindfulness-powered change modalities: Impulse Control Training, Choice Awareness Training, Symbolic Threat Inoculation, and Somatic Emotional Self-regulation Training. Take yourself or your client on a journey of change from anger and frustration to compassion!

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2013

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you never read another book about anger management, read this one

In one weekend of reading, this easy to read book has changed my approach to anger management. With simple experiential exercises, and in only a few sessions I can empower my patients to increase their self awareness of their angry feelings and co-exist with those feelings without impulsively responding to those angry feelings in unhealthy and destructive ways. My patients are given tools to find the solutions within themselves, which facilitates a meaningful and lasting change.

Pavel has incorporated a complex neurobiological understanding of anger and behaviors into a simple yet elegant mindfulness model.

[Natalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a person who struggles with anger, I found this book to be extremely helpful — more helpful than my several years of psychotherapy, amazingly. I loved Dr. Somov's hybrid humanistic/zen/CBT approach as well as his writing style, and plan to read more by him. My only complaint is that in a few spots he comes across as condescending, which takes away somewhat from the accepting it-is-what-it-is tone of the rest of the book, but since it's a book meant for other therapists and not for angry people themselves, I am taking no stars off. Very, very highly recommended.