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Summary: Requires some digging
Review: Although the book has many helpful ideas, it isn't what I call straight forward. I prefer clearly deliniated principles that can be applied to unique situations. Many principles can be extracted here, but are buried in a format that is not to my liking. One could take the "alternative" responses Semmelroth and Smith give to the various scenarios they have chosen too literally as the "correct" or "only" responses, rather than as a guide, which I think is their intent. I found Semmelroth's The Anger Habit Workbook much more useful. It can be used as a stand-alone book that doesn't really need this book as a first-read.
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Summary: Requires some digging
Review: Although the book has many helpful ideas, it isn't what I call straight forward. I prefer clearly deliniated principles that can be applied to unique situations. Many principles can be extracted here, but are buried in a format that is not to my liking. One could take the "alternative" responses Semmelroth and Smith give to the various scenarios they have chosen too literally as the "correct" or "only" responses, rather than as a guide, which I think is their intent. I found Semmelroth's The Anger Habit Workbook much more useful. It can be used as a stand-alone book that doesn't really need this book as a first-read.
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Summary: The Anger Habit
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not my type of book but may be for you
Review: I had a hard time reading this book. The points expressed by the authors are interesting but I like books that spell things out more clearly. I found this book hard to read and I didn't find any useful suggestions on how to control anger. I also did not like the format that was used of showing example "letters" from the authors to fictional patients. I like a more factual books without human-interst stuff. That's just my opinion.
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Summary: Enormous Help - In Depth Treatment of Anger Management
Review: 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
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: 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.
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: This book expresses several intriuging ideas about anger. It can be very helpful for those who are already willing and able to decipher "psychology-speak." The successful reader will also be able to take some rather esoteric ideas and relate them to their own life situation. I find the book's organization to be weak (and kind of weird), and the pseudo-examples to be meandering (and kind of weird). These guys clearly have useful - potentially life transforming - information to share. It would be nice if they could get out of their own collective way and just say it!
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Summary: Great book for just about anyone.
Review: This book provided me with tremendous insight. It helped raise my awareness in regards to anger and what I can do to control it. It has helped me tremendously in regards to my personal life as well as my stress level at work. I am definitely glad I read it and I feel that anyone who has any issues with anger should pick it up as well. You will be amazed how much it can change you.
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Summary: a fantastic, challenging book
Review: 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.
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