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The Anger Fallacy: Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset

A life without anger is attainable - if you understand The Anger Fallacy.

Anger is everywhere - behind everything from road rage to wrap rage, domestic violence to international conflicts. People cling to their anger, as a tool of influence and a driver of revenge. But is anger really ever useful? And can we learn to overcome it?

In this entertaining and ground-breaking book, two of Australia's leading clinical psychologists take a radical approach to anger management, exploding the irrational beliefs that fuel this noxious and misunderstood emotion. Through numerous examples from popular culture and the consulting room, and with a sizable dose of humour, the authors show how to combat anger by substituting empathy and understanding for righteous angry judgments. Along the way, readers will learn a new way of viewing people and their actions that is at once powerful and serene.

Contents:

  • About the authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Anger is everywhere
  • 2. But anger gets results ...
  • 3. But anger motivates me ...
  • 4. But anger is part of my image ...
  • 5. Shoulding: The cognitive basis of anger
  • 6. What are you really angry about?
  • 7. Anger Treatment 101: Get your facts straight
  • 8. Anger Treatment 102: The arbitrariness of 'shoulds'
  • 9. Anger Treatment 103: Seeing the machine
  • 10. Anger Treatment 104: The empathy solution
  • 11. Getting past unfairness
  • 12. Respect: A closer look
  • 13. Recap and conclusion

Featuring the wisdom and wit of: Confucius, The Bible, Yoda, Billy Connolly, George Bernard Shaw, Jerry Seinfeld, Dale Carnegie, Ricky Gervais, Larry David, and many more.

Author Bio:

Steven Laurent is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience in treating psychiatric disorders. He is a regular guest lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he has taught on Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Drug and Alcohol Disorders. At present he works in private practice in the Inner West of Sydney. Steven completed a Masters in Clinical Psychology at UNSW, where his thesis centred on emotion perception in 'psychopaths'. Laurent's interest in anger arose in the 1990s during the completion of undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Formal Logic at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Ross G. Menzies has been providing cognitive-behaviour therapy for anxiety, depression, couples conflict and related issues for over two decades and is currently Associate Professor in Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. He is an active researcher and currently holds over $5 million in national competitive research grants. He has produced four books, over 140 international journal manuscripts and book chapters and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and leading universities and institutions around the world. He continues to attract patients from across metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW, interstate and from overseas, with many individuals and families travelling thousands of kilometres to receive treatment at his private practice. The present book is his first major work on anger.

Review:

“This is a book meant to challenge us. The authors have taken such an engaging and witty approach that the reader is likely to get hooked and will stop to think — to reflect. The humorous story is a device, along with creative metaphors, analogies and dialogue scripts, which the authors use to convey the compelling logic of their argument about the counter-productiveness of anger. I strongly recommend this book. If you are suffering with your anger it will give you a lift” — Adjunct Professor Roger Dooley, Clinical Psychologist

Also available - The Anger Fallacy Workbook

 

The Anger Fallacy: Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset

Author: Steven Laurent

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