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Anger: Taming the Beast: A Step-by-Step Program for Managing Anger Calmly and Effectively

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Looking for help in managing my anger I found this book in the Library and found it to be so useful that I wanted to keep it permanently. Has lessons and techniques in recognizing and controlling anger, but, more importantly terrific insights in how we view and interact with others and how to live with life's reality not our childlike wishes. A very practical and insightful book that is helping me, at age 57, to grow up.

People don't wake up one day and decide to be angry ... the seeds begin as thought clusters early in life ... as young as 3 or 4 years of age. The only way out of the beast that can devour you is reprogramming the negative thinking that fuels it. This is cognitive reconstruction and this book is brilliant with lots of excercises and suggestions. Change your mind change your life.

Other great anger tools: The Hoffman Process and The Sedona Method. Healing anger is a complex web of thought, emotion, and physical release in a constructive outlet.

I use this book with clients in counseling. It's logical, practical, and has relevant assessments and exercises. I've used others (Ellis, Lerner, McKay [also good], Hightower, Gentry and more) but have found this one most effective. It's working from a basic CBT paradigm but touches on awareness, communication and conflict resolution, and family systems. I'd like to give it 4.5 stars, because I like that much, but Amazon does allow half-stars. I've yet to read a book that addresses all aspects of anger fully so I don't give it 5 stars but it's close.