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A Calm Presentation of a Testy Subject - Rated
This short book offers a solution to a difficult and dangerous problem: habitual, uncontrollable anger. Such anger, explain authors Carl Semmelroth and Donald E. P. Smith, is a bad habit, and other habits may trigger it. Just as smokers get the urge for a cigarette at certain times, such as after a meal, while having a drink or while socializing, angry people assert their anger according to repetitive patterns. They may explode, for example, in response to inconsiderate drivers, disobedient children or perceived slights from employers. They stoke their tantrums with feelings of frustration and negative interpretations of the conduct of others. They fantasize frequently about how they will get control over those they see as their antagonists. Semmelroth and Smith do not tell anger addicts to temper their outbursts. Instead, they believe angry people must break the habit altogether, by replacing rage with reason and trying to understand the deeper side of their own feelings. Although this idea has merit, the authors offer their prescription with, perhaps, less than fair warning of just how difficult it is to change habits as deeply rooted as those that nourish anger. With this caution, we suggests that people whose rages have become uncontrollable – or those who have to work or live with them – may benefit greatly from the ideas in this book.
Surprisingly broad, helpful, and informative. - Rated
I intend to suggest this book to my counseling clients. The Anger Habit showed me many things about behavior that I had never associated with anger. The discussion of self-importance and its contribution to anger gave me much more than my money's worth by itself. The book also makes clear how anger requires people to feel invulnerable and how this leads to anxiety in people who have the anger habit. Feelings of alienation, aloofness, and depression are clearly spelled out as among the fruits of anger. The book culminates in a description of what the authors call "voluntary living." I know of no more cogent description of how anger traps people and robs them of their sense of freedom and what to do about it.
