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Overcoming anger, when anger helps and when it hurts, Windy Dryden

eng

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Overcoming anger

Windy Dryden

when anger helps and when it hurts

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. There is, however, some good news. You have the power to change this pattern and to 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. Practical, rational, strategic and supportive, this short and accessible book gives you the tools you need to make the change

The importance of attitudes in unhealthy anger -- What do we make ourselves unheathily angry about and at whom? -- Unhealthy anger: person and context factors -- The consequence of unhealthy anger -- The importance of attitudes in healthy anger -- What do we make ourselves healthily angry about and at whom? -- Healthy anger: state versus strait -- The consequences of healthy anger -- Why you may not see your unhealthy anger as a problem -- How to deal with your unhealthy anger in specific situations -- How to identify and deal with recurrent patterns in your unhealthy anger and the rigid/extreme core attitudes that underpin it -- Identify and deal with any secondary emotional problems with your unhealthy anger -- Other ways of dealing with your unhealthy anger

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