Anger

Tavris' "landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about anger and includes a brand-new chapter on strategies for specific anger scenarios.

Carol Tavris, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, writer, and educator. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan. She was senior editor for several years of a then-new magazine, Psychology Today, and went on to develop a career as a teacher, lecturer, and psychology writer. She is coauthor (with Carole Wade) of The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective and an introductory textbook, Psychology. In addition to writing the "Mind Health" column for Vogue magazine, she has written many articles and book reviews on diverse issues in psychology for a wide variety of magazines, including The New York Times, Discover, Science Digest, Human Nature, New York, Harper's, Geo, Ms., Redbook, and Woman's Day. While living in New York, Tavris taught at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research, and in Los Angeles she now teaches from time to time in the department of psychology at UCLA.

Contents Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: A Point of View 1. Rage and Reason -- an Eternal Ambivalence The Fallacy of the Swami's Snake The Freudian Legacy The Anger Business The Use and Abuse of Anger 2. Uncivil Rites -- the Cultural Rules of Anger The Judicial Emotion A Brief Madness Manners, Emotions, and the American Way 3. The Anatomy of Anger Emotions and the Brain Temper and Temperament: The Genetic Ingredient The Fuel of Anger Thinking About Feeling Biological Politics 4. Stress, Illness, and Your Heart -- Myths of Suppressed Anger Eating Disorders, Overweight, and Ulcers Anger and Depression The Stress Connection Anger and Heart Disease Considerations 5. "Getting It Out of Your System" -- Myths of Expressed Anger Myth #1: Aggression Myth #2: Talking Out Anger Myth #3: Tantrums The Conditions of Catharsis 6. "Seeing Red" Frustration Noise Crowds Drivers and Dawdlers Alcohol Exercise and Sports Considerations 7. Shouters, Sulkers, Grouches, and Scolds -- Which Sex Has the Anger Problem? The Stereotype Up Close The Persistence of Myth Two Cultures 8. The Marital Onion The Onion Unpeeled The Systems Solution In Praise of Civility 9. A Rage for Justice The Rationalizing Species The Birth and Death of Anger Temper of the Times 10. Rethinking Anger: Strategies for Living with Anger and Getting Beyond It Chronic Anger The Difficult Person The Angry Divorce The Aggressive Child The Victim Considerations Further Reading Notes Bibliography Index