Overcoming Anger: When Anger Helps And When It Hurts

by Windy Dryden

Overview

Windy Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and shows you
how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding what triggers it. Unhelpful
beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of unhealthy anger, which can be
dangerous and destructive.
There is, however, some good news. You have the power to change this pattern and to
develop strategies to express your anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate
what you feel without scaring yourself, or those close to you. Practical, rational, strategic
and supportive, this short and accessible book gives you the tools you need to make the
change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529375398
Publisher:	Mobius
Publication date:	02/22/2022
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the C ognitive
Behaviour Therapy (C BT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in
Rational-Emotive C ognitive Behaviour Therapy (REC BT), a leading C BT approach. He has
been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the
first people in Britain to be trained in C BT.
He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as
diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.
He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 The importance of attitudes in unhealthy anger 1

2 What do we make ourselves unhealthily angry about and at whom? 11

3 Unhealthy anger: Person and context factors 26

4 The consequences of unhealthy anger 31

5 The importance of attitudes in healthy anger 41

6 What do we make ourselves healthily angry about and at whom? 50

7 Healthy anger: State versus trait 62

8 The consequences of healthy anger 64

9 Why you may not see your unhealthy anger as a problem 71

10 How to deal with your unhealthy anger in specific situations 88

11 How to identify and deal with recurrent patterns in your unhealthy anger and the rigid/extreme core attitudes that underpin it 114

12 Identify and deal with any secondary emotional problems about your unhealthy anger 121

13 Other ways of dealing with your unhealthy anger 124

Afterword 143

Index 145