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Make Anger Your Ally (Living Books)

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I read this book over 10 years ago and have happily employed the wisdom and techniques found in it ever since.

I came online to see if it might still be available to give as a gift to someone who recently demolished his computer - with a baseball bat!

I'm thrilled to see that it's still in print. It deserves a wide reading (even after all this time!)

This is very positive, constructive and USEFUL view of our God-given gift of anger.

Anger that, used wisely and with understanding, can enhance and protect our lives. Or - used automatically and without awareness or comprehension - can ruin everything we love.

Thank you to Mr. Warren for this nurturing gift to our rage-prone society.

Read it, think about it, practice it and do it - you'll be a different person!

This is a self-help book that empowers you with practical example to truly help yourself, without any goody-two-shoes feeling, but with actionable steps and insights.

I found this book to be an excellent help in what to do with your anger. I can and do recommend to everybody who feels that anger is impacting in their lives negatively.

Towards the end, the content is more christian-focussed, but whether you want to agree with that or not, the main part of the book is extremely helpful and not religion based.

This book changed and improved my life, however, reading some of the other opinions, I would agree that if somebody suffers from depression or other mental illnesses, this book may not apply as much, as it is more geared towards a person who in mentally healthy and therefore has the capacity to control their feelings and actions to a greater extend than those suffering from mental illness or other medical problems.

This is a marvelous read.Dr. Clark has made a complex problem easy to understand, with the solution to anger problems easily accessible.

Everyone should read this book. Everyone. Even people who do not believe they have a problem.

Although the word "Anger" is in the title, this book helps you to identify all of your emotions and sort out your feelings.

As someone that let anger control them and being very explosive at times! I knew that something had to be done or I would end up in Jail or worse! I find that i have found out what my triggers are and use those triggers as a response to do something positive and constructive rather then the old me of blowing up and hurting even the innocent bystander!

This makes a great gift for friends and relatives that may suffer from anger mismanagement!

Dealing with anger is a process that takes time and effort and if you are ready to change how you deal with this emotion then this book is a great starting point! The book is out of print but there are many used copies around!

Yes it can change your life if you allow it to and follow the guides for dealing with anger!Make Anger Your Ally (Living Books)

This author seems to have a vendetta against all those who do not handle their anger appropriately. Rather than discuss his examples of anger mismanagers in a compassionate and understanding way, Clark assumes a position of authority and lets loose some raw hostility towards his subjects.

In one such example, he oversimplifies the problem of clinical depression and reduces it to a tactic to express anger in a sneaky way. When discussing and describing a depressed person, he tells the reader (who may very well be a depressed person at the end of his/her rope) that others feel like taking the depressed person "out back behind the shed". What a not-so-veiled expression of the author's own anger towards those with depression.

He also compares people who mope to Judas, calling them underhanded and malicious. I do not think that every person who has ever moped, nor even the majority of people who have or do mope, are trying to provoke those around them. A little bit of cognitive therapy would clue the author in to his gross distortion--that he can read the mopers' minds and that, even if they are trying to send a message to those around them, it is a poisionous message intended to hurt and undermine the recipeint. Has it not ocurred to this author that maybe people become sad and have trouble hiding it? What might appear to be malicious moping may actually be the visbile results of great emotional pain. When we feel comfortable around others, shouldn't we have the freedom to be as we are? I do not become sad nor downtrodden nor lethargic for the sole purpose of angering or hurting others. That is the last thing on my mind. If I see someone is moping or sad, I may feel pain at seeing him/her like that, but I am not so pompous and bitter as to accuse the person of willfully trying to hurt me. Instead, I reach out and show that I care and reassure the person that he/she has the total freedom to be and that he/she has my unconditional positive regard.

The author needs to take a step back and realzie that his portrayal of the anger mismanagers in the first two sections of the book are hurtful and only serve to damage the self-esteem of those who are caught in the negative life patterns.

Basically, If you see this on someones bookshelf, it's a good sign that the person is wacky. Especially if it is a chick.