The Anger Habit: Proven Principles to Calm the Stormy Mind

by Carl Johan Calleman, Donald Smith, Carl Semmelroth, et al.

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402203349
• ISBN13: 9781402203343
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

a fantastic, challenging book

this is an eye-opening book. I'm a therapist and highly recommend it to anyone interested in grappling with one's own(or others') anger. I found some of the writing perhaps needlessly dense, but much of it was compact and eloquent. The letter-writing format, in my view, worked; it was a novel approach to a subject that's been rendered dry and dull in more conventional structural formats. In a word, this is just a flat-out, great book--a profound, startling meditation on anger.

This book changed my life

This book changed my life. I did not realize I was an angry person until I read this book. The truth hit me like a ton of bricks, and nothing has been the same since. I didn't realize that my emotional issues were actually a "safe" front for what was really deep and long-term anger. After reading a chapter of the book, however, I could see the truth, and just recognizing my anger has done much to dissipate it. However, I also now know I can interrupt the frustration to ask myself what it is I really want control over. Since reading the book, I have done exactly that, over and over. This book -- along with "The Dance of Anger" -- has been so helpful in my life -- to everyone in this house, I cannot adequately describe the change. I give this book my highest recommendation.

Enormous Help - In Depth Treatment of Anger Management

Reading The Anger Habit was a big surprise. It showed me the conection between anger and lots of other aspects of my life. I've made changes in my marriage, at work, and with my children that have really made a difference. It showed me that what I thought was my self-esteem was really my self-importance. What a relief I've felt not having to control how others think of me and respond to me. I never thought reading and studying a book could actually change my life, but this book did. Thank you so much Dr.s Semmelroth and Smith

A book that may change the way people think about anger.

This is a huge book in only 150 well-written pages. Thinking readers will be thrilled by insight after insight concerning the relationship of their anger to their anxiety, depression, feelings of alienation, parenting, teen depression, and of course family relationships. I suspect many mental health professionals who have a blind spot for the less obvious forms of anger will be offended by this book. Therapists who truly experience their clients as equals will love it, and so will their clients.

The Anger Habit

AN EXTREMELY INSIGHTFUL AND HELPFUL BOOK. I CONSTANTLY FIND MYSELF REFERRING PEOPLE TO THIS BOOK AND AM GETTING WONDERFUL FEEDBACK. THE LENGTH AND FORMAT (ESPECIALLY THE LETTERS TO CLIENTS AND ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE EXAMPLES) MAKE THIS BOOK VERY HELPFUL TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PEOPLE. I USE THIS BOOK ESPECIALLY WITH CLIENTS REGARDING ANGER MANAGEMENT, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND PARENTING/CONTROL BATTLES. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE AUTHORS' NEXT WORK.