Overcoming Anger : When Anger Helps and When it Hurts

by Windy Dryden

Windy Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and shows you how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding what triggers it. Unhelpful beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of unhealthy anger, which can be dangerous and destructive. However the good news is that you can change this pattern, and develop strategies to express your anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate what you feel without scaring yourself or those close to you.

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2000

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Reviews

[Caitlyn Lindsay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some what helpful but very repetitive and academically written so hard to follow. The examples are simplistic and at times (ironically) aggravating. Some useful points that I will use in the future though.