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Overcoming Frustration and Anger
How do you handle frustration? With irritation, anger, hostility, rage? By blaming the person or event bothering you? If so, your reaction will backfire and make you ill, prevent you from handling the problem at hand, and make you an unhappy person. This book shows you a better way to manage frustration and anger.
- GenresNonfiction
142 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1974
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About the author
Paul Hauck
28 books23 followersDr. Paul A. Hauck was a renowned American psychologist and author, known for his long career in clinical practice and public education on mental health. After serving in World War II, he earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and held key positions in several mental health centers before establishing the first private psychological practice in the Quad Cities. He wrote 16 popular psychology books, translated into 23 languages, and his long-running column The Human Scene educated readers for decades. Hauck was also an avid lifelong learner, enjoying music, languages, and sports. He was honored with the Illinois Most Distinguished Psychologist Award and retired in 2007.
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April 24, 2021
I am really apologetic for being rude, but for the sake of being direct in a short review I shall let you know from the onset that only one word came to mind again and again as I read this book: Nonsense.
Not just nonsense, but also a blatant disregard and understanding of human pain and hurts.
The first sliver of discomfort came when I was reading the preface where the author said, "These pages will give the reader all that he needs to know to master his self-righteous indignation." -- wherever did that biased (and unsympathetic) generalisation come from that all anger is "self-righteous indignation"? Defining anger like that is way too narrow.
His constant refrain is: you can control how you feel, you can control whether you get angry or not - so why don't get a hold of yourself and just NOT be angry. Just forgive, and move on. Don't let anger ruin your day.
Oh, if only it were that simple, Dr. Hauck. Do you think majority of the people who struggle with anger issues do not wish they could do that? If only it were so easy to forgive when great injustices are done and great pain inflicted. According to Dr. Hauck you don't need to go back into your history and mend the wound. Just leave it open (and hurting), but tell yourself that it's fine and you can make yourself imagine it's not hurting, and you'll be able to move on.
I'm still reeling from how bad and unpastoral this book is, and am pretty shocked that Westminster Press would publish such a book. The only valid reason I can think of is that this was written in the 1970s when perhaps such issues were not as well-understood yet. Still, however misguided the author is, the dismissive and rather off-putting way Dr. Hauck writes still warrant the bad rating.
Anger and frustration is real, valid, and painful. Anyone who cannot give basic respect to that has no place in writing a book looking to help people struggling with such emotions.
Not just nonsense, but also a blatant disregard and understanding of human pain and hurts.
The first sliver of discomfort came when I was reading the preface where the author said, "These pages will give the reader all that he needs to know to master his self-righteous indignation." -- wherever did that biased (and unsympathetic) generalisation come from that all anger is "self-righteous indignation"? Defining anger like that is way too narrow.
His constant refrain is: you can control how you feel, you can control whether you get angry or not - so why don't get a hold of yourself and just NOT be angry. Just forgive, and move on. Don't let anger ruin your day.
Oh, if only it were that simple, Dr. Hauck. Do you think majority of the people who struggle with anger issues do not wish they could do that? If only it were so easy to forgive when great injustices are done and great pain inflicted. According to Dr. Hauck you don't need to go back into your history and mend the wound. Just leave it open (and hurting), but tell yourself that it's fine and you can make yourself imagine it's not hurting, and you'll be able to move on.
I'm still reeling from how bad and unpastoral this book is, and am pretty shocked that Westminster Press would publish such a book. The only valid reason I can think of is that this was written in the 1970s when perhaps such issues were not as well-understood yet. Still, however misguided the author is, the dismissive and rather off-putting way Dr. Hauck writes still warrant the bad rating.
Anger and frustration is real, valid, and painful. Anyone who cannot give basic respect to that has no place in writing a book looking to help people struggling with such emotions.
January 5, 2013
My therapist recommended this little jewel!
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