Anger Management Workbook for Men: Take Control of Your Anger and Master Your Emotions

by Aaron Karmin, Nathan R. Hydes (Foreword)

Be the bigger man with straightforward strategies for managing your anger

Are you ready to take control of your anger? Clinical Therapist Aaron Karmin teaches you the skills to manage your anger without aggression and build up your self-confidence, self-control, and self-respect.

The Anger Management Workbook for Men goes beyond why men get angry and helps you get to the root of your anger by

Invaluable information and assessments to help evaluate your angerConcrete examples of productively expressing angerClinical examples of anger management strategies

The Anger Management Workbook for Men will give you positive and productive anger management tools to strengthen the most important and most overlooked relationship in your life—your relationship with yourself.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Personal Development, Nonfiction

187 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2016

Reviews

[Ahmad Fraz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful

What I liked about the book is that it recognised anger as a real emotion to be understood and not suppressed. It is true also as this book entails that many of our emotional states have origins in our childhood. It is very difficult indeed to dust off this mirror of the past and recognise that those childhood experiences that we disliked the most when our parents got angry, are the same ways that we are doing to our own children, repeating what should have been stopped.

[Korena Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just for men

The gender specific tile and narrative may be off putting, however this book provides a great deal of practical and valuable insight and perspective on dealing with strong emotions that stand in the way of one's happiness.

[Vlad Ardelean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a review, but a remark: this book probably makes more sense to people from the US. Good, but very culturally opinionated.

[Satrajit Sanyal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly there is nothing to like or dislike about these kinds of books. You know you have a problem and you have to figure out a way to deal with it. The best thing about this book is it recognizes anger as a consequence of the emotion underlying for example jealousy, pain and multiple others. It also recognizes the fact that since early childhood, we are a creature of imitation. We learn and do what we see without realizing the impact of behavior.

I suggest this workbook to those who are working on how to deal with anger. It could give you an unique perspective and may help you to find a suitable way to deal with anger.

[Amr Khalifa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This workbook was genuinely helpful in recognizing early signs of anger, especially defensiveness and negative self-talk. It clearly explains how anger is often driven by our interpretation of situations rather than the situations themselves, which has helped me pause and reframe my thoughts. I’ve already avoided getting angry on a few occasions in the last few days just by changing my interpretation of the situation. The quote about holding a grudge being like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die really hit me and made a lot of sense. One downside, some of the exercises can feel a bit repetitive or basic.

[Seebu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compared to other books aiming to help readers cope with anger, this one does a much better job. Where other authors concentrate on the cause and effects of anger; Aaron Karmin concentrates on dealing with our anger.
He's done a wonderful job in constantly reminding the reader that we're just human, and its ok to be angry; just take a moment to retrospect habitually. The author does not make us feel like we need to meditate or possess zen level self control to deal with anger / anxiety.

I for one greatly benefitted from this book.

[Gregory Guntren · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eye opening experience

I found the book often calling me out on my own bad habits and b.s. But it always showed me how to turn it around and make myself better. The book showed me that i I have self-worth, and it is important to recognize and nurture that. If you ever want to turn your life around this book is a good early guide to sending you in the right direction.

[Oz · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy the book at all. The writing felt like a basic online article with only surface-level information and lacked any real depth. By the time I reached 41%, I still hadn’t found any actual tips or techniques, so I decided to stop reading. It just didn’t have that compelling quality that keeps you engaged. This is just my personal opinion, of course!!

[k · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book! Highly Recommend it!!

I thought the author had lived with me my whole life after reading so many of the examples. And to know that I am not alone with this problem was liberating.

[Jean Occeus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very Insightful

I like the modern approach to dealing with anger management issues. I recommend this book to men who struggle with anger that may stem from low self worth. Edifying the body always.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical

I liked the examples. This was a great reminder that you are in control when you can take a handle on your emotions. Once you set your personal standards and not for others it makes it easier to not stretch yourself thin to please others. Great read.

[Mehmet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not very useful. Pretty generic advice. Not a very helpful self-help book. I was kinda disappointed since the book has pretty good rating on Amazon and Goodreads. Don't expect too much out of this book.

[Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid workbook that helped me work through some of my own issues with anger management (or lack thereof). Felt like the final chapter was not as robust or solid as the rest of the book. Regardless, uncovered plenty for me to work on and gave helpful tips to do so.

[Daya4goal · Rating 3 out of 5]

my first experience in Audio book

[Ravindra Joshi]

Ok, slightly impractical. Demands too much surrendering of ego.

[Fr. Nicholas Blackwell, O. Carm. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous and wonderfully helpful for me. The practices and exercises have helped me incorporate some lessons from the book into my daily life.

[Bo MNE · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely useless - 1/2 of the entire book is blank for you to write on, with no tangible purpose or follow up to any of that writing

[Brian K Bottorff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent anger management refresher!!!

Well worth the read as we all need to refresh on these very easy tactics to help us all beat anger!!

[Christopher Rodgman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean, I was less angry while reading it.

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

very well written. easy read. good insight.

[George Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book that handles emotions in a way I think more men can understand. Not all tied up in "how did we get here? What did your parents do?"and more about how do we fix this? Gives needed emotional tools that help you understand why.

[Joel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will forever regret not reading this until I lost everything due to a lack of anger management. This workbook correctly noted just about every mistake I made and will help me recognize these patters when they enter my brain in the future. I’ll re read this book every month for the next decade to ensure I see these patterns and thoughts in real time, as well as find appropriate outlets for my thoughts and feelings. Completing this workbook has helped me regulate in an extremely difficult time. Men, PLEASE read this BEFORE you lose everything that matters to you.

The first quote rocked me: The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father all the nails were gone. “You’ve done well, But look at all the holes in the fence. It will never be the same.”

Men, learn from my mistakes.

[c: · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s one of those inspiring books that makes me want to apply its lessons to my life but I forget them shortly after finishing it

[Frederic Filiatrault · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall a good book to better understand the root causes.

Book is about 130 pages of content but there's 59 blank pages for exercises. Way too much. And I do my exercises on a word document or piece of paper, not in a book (it's personal stuff after all).

Although it made me understand more about where it comes from, I felt like they are not enough solutions presented, tips and tricks, on how to manage it, etc.

Really liked the test in the book, very useful.

For what's actually in the book, I found it very generic and often about outside factors (antagonists, events). I liked that it was written for men but also did not find anything very particular apart some old-fashion stereotypes that does not apply nowadays. I would have prefer more examples, cases, etc.

Overall, feels like I'm missing the "Anger Management For Men - Part II - How to fix it". Still, I see value in this book for understanding where it comes from. Now I need a book to actually help me fix it.

[Fred Fontz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't love the idea of a work book "for men" because I think anger is anger. But, I heard good things about this book and decided to give it a try. For the most part, you can remove "for men" from this book without losing any meaning.

Overall, I think the book has good points and offers solid examples. There are a few areas that are a bit repetitive, but I found it very useful.

Given the option, I'd probably give this a 3.5, but I opted to go with the higher score since there aren't any fractional ratings options.

[Matthew RC · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m not going to rate this one cos it is what it is and if you do the work it’s good and if you don’t? Waste of time. I got some heavy difficult work to do.