Overcoming Anger: How to Identify It, Stop It, and Live a Healthier Life

by Carol D. Jones

Overcoming Anger helps you identify the roots of your anger and get it under control once and for all. Using cutting-edge techniques combined with a conversational approach, author Carol D. Jones, Ph.D., M.F.T., helps you turn your gaze inward and understand your individual anger style.
You'll also develop a framework for managing your anger, and techniques for eliminating it altogether, such
Overcoming Anger provides you with quizzes, checklists, and mediations designed to help you wipe out anger at its core. With these techniques, you'll finally be able to let go of your anger and live a happy and fulfilling life!

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Matt Gwynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a perfect book for what I needed. After a recent incident with road rage, I determined that I needed to delve into studying the topic of anger. If you experience any issues with anger yourself, I highly recommend this book. It sheds light as to what anger is, why it exists, where it comes from, when it happens, who experiences it, and how to deal with it. It provides a number of exercises that you can apply in your real-world every-day life. This was a very helpful book for me. I have now controlled and coped with my own anger ever since beginning the book.

[Affad Shaikh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful. I don't actually have "anger issues" in the sense that its a violent response or that its something that causes problems; I just don't like the way that I internalize my anger and am not sometimes able to express myself, or identify why it was that i got this feeling of anger. What was particularly useful were the discussions on stress and anger; the chapter on communicating was incredibly useful especially on how to communicate with people and deescalate a situation. another incredibly useful chapter in my opinions was "Stress Survival Techniques" as I realized my response to stress is partly why I find it difficult to identify where my anger is stemming from as well as the difficulty I have sometimes with communicating what I am triggered by or feeling. I would recommend this book simply because of the value I got from understanding the physiological and psychological connection between anger and stress.

[Stacy Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tips that I will for sure try to utilize. Mostly common sense but sometimes people may need just a look at the obvious.

Unfortunately my parent situation was less then ideal so that made most of my personal experience as an adult quite interesting.

If you have serious issues of course seek a counseling facility but this book would be good to have on hand for that extra boost.

[Ruby · Rating 4 out of 5]

This month, I signed up for Amazon Prime to use their Amazon Kindle Library. This is the one that I decided to check out first (loaning time is 1 month). First of all, it was a pain to navigate through the list of books on Kindle. I hope they’ll make some improvements on that in the future. Now, on to the book.

By now I have read a bunch of self-help books. I find them to be more enjoyable than fictions. There are just much more things to learn from self-help books. I did learn a few things from this book — nice little scenarios and techniques. However, it is not perfect. Sometimes the book tend to cover more than it can handle, provide information without any credibility, and strange logical connections between one subject to the next.

The writing is not as solid and refined but overall, it is a good advice book.

[Kristy]

An over-simplified self-help book dealing with the very complex topic of anger. BTW, I'm still full of rage and I'm halfway through it.

[Rachel Stephens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative.