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Anger Kills: Seventeen Strategies for Controlling the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health [Paperback]

Redford Williams (Author)
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May 12, 1994

In Anger Kills, Dr. Redford Williams reveals ground-breaking research that confirms that hostility not only is a serious barrier to happiness, but can lead to heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses.

Dr. Williams and his wife, Virginia, team up to present the latestresearch in the field and offer seventeen practical strategies that can help readers translate scientific theory into meaningful action. Begin by taking the Hostility Questionnaire, which will help you assess the degree to which hostility, cynicism, and aggression rule your life. Then start a Hostility Log and follow the Hostility Roadmap to keep track of those incidents or people that really push your buttons. With these insights, you can then move on to sample any or all of the seventeen different strategies to reduce the wrath that sabotages your health and can drain your life of joy and pleasure.

In writing Anger Kills, the authors draw not only on the latest research, but on their own experiences as a couple for more than twenty-nine years and on the experiences of couples who have used the Williamses' methods successfully in various workshops the authors have led. The result is a combination of solid science with empathic explorations of the nature of human relationships and caring. This is science with a heart.



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Redford ( The Trusting Heart ) and Virginia Williams ( Surrealism, Quantum Philosophy and World War I ), husband and wife, explain the interplay of psychology and medicine in this instructive book. Elaborating on Redford Williams's earlier work, which linked excess hostility to life-threatening illness, especially heart disease, they present new scientific findings as well as draw on their own experiences in their more than 30 years together. A questionnaire and other exercises are provided to help readers locate their hostility level and identify what types of things "set them off." Finally, the authors outline 17 strategies to control anger. These include meditation, laughing at oneself, assertiveness, caring for a pet and performing community service. A deft balance of research and intuitive perceptions. Author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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This clearly written book is a continuation and elaboration of Redford Williams's earlier work, The Trusting Heart (Times Bks., 1989), in which he described recent scientific evidence linking hostile thinking and behavior to cardiovascular risk. In Anger Kills , the authors convincingly describe the damage that cynicism, anger, and aggression can do to personal health and to interpersonal relationships. A brief "hostility" questionnaire is followed by 17 proven techniques for changing these insidiously deleterious personality traits. The strategies are straightforward and practical. Follow even some of them and, at the least, you will improve the quality of your relationships. You may even prolong your life. A promotional tour should ensure high demand. Highly recommended for public libraries and wherever interest warrants.
- January Adams, Somerville P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial (May 12, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060976233
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060976231
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,107,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An Easy-To-Use Guide, June 17, 2003
ANGER KILLS is a user-friendly book that combines practical skills with sound background information--starting with The Hostility Questionnaire in Chapter One "Am I At Risk?" which helps the reader identify her levels of Cynicism, Anger, and Aggression. The chapter also details two other methods for identifying danger levels of anger, The Hostility Log and The Hostility Roadmap.

Chapter Two "The Facts About Hostility" discusses the various important studies done not only on "Type A" people and behavior but also the medical evidence of the health risks of anger.

Chapters Three though Nineteen give one each of the 17 strategies, including: Reason with Yourself, Distract Yourself, Meditate, Avoid Overstimulation, Assert Yourself, Care for a Pet, Listen!, Be Tolerant, and Laugh at Yourself. Each chapter is organized into these sections: When to Use This Strategy, How to Use This Strategy, Why This Strategy Works, The ABCs of [e.g., Reasoning with Yourself], and Exercises.

It is obvious that ANGER KILLS is a labor of love as well as expertise. The Doctors Redmond (a husband and wife team) use examples from their own lives (not just the lives of their patients/clients) and relationship. Their writing style is clear, easy to follow, and empathic. Throughout the book, cartoons and quotations are used to illustrate key points. On the expertise side, he is director of behavioral research at Duke University Medical Center, and she is an author and historian.

ANGER KILLS is an easy-to-use guide to helping one's life become both healthier and happier.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Anger Can Be Hazardous to Your Health, November 8, 2007
"Getting angry is like taking a small dose of some slow-acting poison, arsenic...every day of your life (Page XV).

This books explains that hostility is at the root of our anger.
One cannot get rid of anger with a wish and a prayer or even a commitment not to do it again. I tried this dozens of times and it never works. This books tells me I must chip anger away a little bit at a time (until the day I die). The author states that "three aspects of hostility that are harmful to health are cynicism, anger, and aggression."

Cynicism: a mistrusting attitude,
Anger: the emotion that we show when confronted with unacceptable behavior, and
Aggression: the behavior to which hostile people are driven.

I will never cured of this habit since I had since six years old.
I must treat anger like someone keep away from any other addiction.

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44 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the title says it all, September 11, 1999
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This review is from: Anger Kills: Seventeen Strategies for Controlling the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health (Paperback)
Are you depressed? Do you seem to be pissed off a good part of your day; are you aggravated with people and do find yourself cursing at life? Well, there is probably anger driving these feelings of hostility toward yourself and others. This is very unhealthy in the long run. Unless you can buy your own island, dealing with people is a must. So instead of letting people make you mad, take control or else anger kills. If you don't believe this I will tell you how it almost killed my desire to succede and almost kept me from moving ahead.

The truth is people can be a pain in the u know where. Deal with it. This is how.

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Anger kills. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brain serotonin function, increased coronary risk, cynical mistrust, controlling hostility, hostility level, hostility control, hostile person, cynical thoughts, hostile thoughts, adrenaline responses, meditation skills, hostile people, coronary arteriosclerosis, trusting heart
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Hostility Log, Hostility Syndrome, Hostility Roadmap, John Barefoot, Western Electric, New York, Hostility Questionnaire, San Francisco, Total Hostility, United States, Universal Press Syndicate, Increase Your Empathy, Practice Trusting Others, The Trusting Heart, Bob Schwartz, Jim Blumenthal, Joseph Cotten
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