Getting Over Getting Mad: Positive Ways to Manage Anger in Your Most Important Relationships (Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Tips)

A practical guide that “breaks anger down into neat, accessible components to help readers gain insight into what makes them angry and how anger erupts” (Publishers Weekly).From a psychotherapist who has appeared on NPR, CNN, and other media, Getting Over Getting Mad provides clear information, inspiration, and suggestions for protecting ourselves and our relationships from the damage that can occur when anger is dealt with in unhealthy and unproductive ways. The book's primary emphasis is on prevention, encouraging us to deal with stress, frustration, tantrums, and annoyances quickly, before these disturbances sour feelings and burn bridges.Covering situations from workplace tensions to family arguments to road rage, the book also gives concrete suggestions for handling anger in ongoing difficult situations, and chronicles the author's own experiences as a therapist and workshop leader.

With society increasingly held hostage to stress, conflict, and violence, the issue of anger is getting lots of attention. Intimate partners, families, schools, workplaces, and the media are all focusing on how to better manage this difficult emotion. In contrast to books that analyze the causes of anger or discuss the issue on a societal level, Getting Over Getting Mad provides readers with inspiration and suggestions for making positive changes in themselves and their relationships. The book's primary emphasis is on prevention, encouraging people to deal with upset, frustration, tantrums, and annoyances quickly - before these disturbances sour feelings and burn bridges. The book also gives concrete suggestions for handling anger in ongoing difficult situations, and chronicles the author's own experiences as a therapist and workshop leader.

Publishers Weekly

Anger, explains Judy Ford (Wonderful Ways to Love a Child), is a legitimate emotion, but it is also one that "causes tremendous confusion" because we don't always know how to express it productively and resolve it comfortably. In Getting Over Getting Mad: Positive Ways to Manage Anger in Your Most Important Relationships, Ford breaks anger down into neat, accessible components to help readers gain insight into what makes them angry and how anger erupts. Next, she walks them gently through the steps of healthy anger management. 5-city author tour in the Midwest and Northwest. ( Apr.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.