Product Description

Carl Semmelroth's The Anger Habit is a leading anger-management book that is poised to become a major force in the category. This book is centered around the principle that for those who have anger problems, anger can be a learned response. Often the people with the problem don't realize that they are acting habitually, or why they are.

Semmelroth takes you step by step through the process of identifying and getting over the anger habit.

Case studies and stories show you how to avoid: € Feelings of losing control € Depression € Panic € Family battles

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A Calm Presentation of a Testy Subject        Rating:

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 suggest 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.

one of the best of its kind        Rating:

I really have gotten a tremenendous amount out of this book. The concepts relate directly to actual human experiences in a very direct way. It is dense, so I do recommend reading it twice to improve your chances of absorbing it. I'd even be so bold as to say that if you actually absorb the contents of the book you can't help but experience a transformation. I have read a lot of self-help stuff and this may be #1 in terms of its impact on me personally and professionally. Try reading it and take your time.

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