The Anger Habit Workbook: Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind [Paperback]

Carl Semmelroth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2004

The Anger Habit Workbook takes the lessons learned in The Anger Habit and applies them in workbook format, giving you a tool to identify your anger habit and work past it. The book gives 13 lessons and many exercises on the following topics:

--Learning to Own the Cause of Your Anger
--Anger and Lack of Communication in Relationships
--Reducing Anxiety by Giving Up the Social Anxiety Game
--Misery as Anger
--Self-Control by Self-Attack
--Learning to Use Your Will without Anger

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The Anger Habit Workbook is a breakthrough in the treatment of anger. It provides brilliant insight and practical lessons for dealing with one of modern society’s most critical behavioral problems." —Dr. Geary A. Rummler, past president of the International Society of Performance Improvement and coauthor of the bestselling Performance Improvement

About the Author

Carl Semmelroth, Ph.D., has maintained a mental health practice for more than twenty-five years in Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan. He is the coauthor of The Anger Habit and the author of The Anger Habit Workbook.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks; 1 edition (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402203357
• ISBN-13: 978-1402203350
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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88 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally - practical steps to solving this problem!, March 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Anger Habit Workbook: Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind (Paperback)

I've read a number of books on anger management over the last ten years to try and help with being irritable and too quick to anger. Most were not practical enough and, even the ones that did offer exercises, didn't seem to help in any lasting way.

This book is different though. It approaches anger from some directions that are completely new to me. Because I now understand so much more about the reasons I've been using anger I'm actually finding I can control it! Because the whole book is practical exercises (as opposed to the usual "journal after the event" type thing I'm used to seeing) it really helps develop your understanding and skills while working through it.

"The Anger Habit" is also interesting because it offers more background and examples, however this Workbook stands up perfectly well on it's own, another reason to give it a resounding five stars!

69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anger Help That's Right to the Point, November 24, 2002

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This review is from: The Anger Habit Workbook: Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind (Paperback)

The Anger Habit Workbook is a useful companion book to The Anger Habit. It contains right-to-the-point instructions and exercises for cooling down anger, owning anger as your own problem, reducing righteousness and how to identify and reduce control problems. Especially helpful are the "lessons" on criticism, judgmental thinking, and self-importance. Unfortunately, the gem of the book, the treatment of hurry as anger, is hidden in the twelfth chapter instead of up front where it belongs. In using this books with clients I recommend this chapter third rather than twelfth where it is in the book. All of the chapters are pretty independent from one another so that individuals or classes can pick and choose those topics they want to work with. This book, along with The Anger Habit, is going to be around for a long time.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars By far the best book out there--Genuinely Helpful!, February 14, 2005

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This review is from: The Anger Habit Workbook: Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind (Paperback)

Of all the books I've ever read on the subject, this book is like a key. It lays bare all of the reasons we use anger to the point of almost being embarrassing. I have always thought of my anger being justified for reason or another and I can never think about anger the same way after reading this book. I think this book can save many many relationships for those who take the time to read it.