How to Deal with Angry People: 10 Strategies for Facing Anger at Home, at Work and in the Street
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Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can’t cut ourselves off from these angry people (although terminating the relationship is an option that’s explored), this book draws on the author’s years of research and clinical practice to help readers manage potentially explosive situations for the best possible outcomes. The book:
– Reveals the psychological factors that underpin an angry personality (eg genetics, gender, other personality traits).
– Offers ten key strategies for dealing effectively with angry people, from figure out what you want from this person and know when to disengage to avoid character assaults and find ways to reach those who refuse to communicate.
– Provides case studies, fact boxes, tips and activities to support readers as they deal with the angry people in their lives.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 0 edition (9 May 2023), Watkins Publishing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 224 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1786786648 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1786786647 |
| Dimensions | 13.56 x 1.65 x 21.46 cm |
by Novel Reader
You’re probably interested in this book because you have at least one angry person in your life, whether it’s a boss, friend or family member.
This book looks at why people are angry and – in the second half – ten strategies for dealing with them.
I found this book very practical and full of techniques and tips you can use.
It sets them out really clearly.
But it doesn’t shy away from making you consider your part in the angry relationship, while being absolutely clear that you must stay safe from abusive people.
In summary, I’d really recommend this very accessible and human guide, using real example to illustrate.
by Booksginbeaches
This book is very interesting as years ago i worked in customer services and my mental health suffered because of constant angry customers that I could not help, it was an impossible horrible job. I wish I had read this book nthen.
by Helen Pugh
This book is so useful that I read it in stages absorbing one chapter before starting another.
I am not alone in noticing how much anger and confrontation there is everywhere at the moment. I recognise anger in myself, my family and my friends as well as in the outside world.
This book is an insightful exploration of anger. Genetics versus environment is discussed. I found the fight and flight explanation particularly interesting.
The strategies for coping with anger are “doable”. The case studies are interesting.
Highly recommended.
by Helen Wilkinson
What a useful and insightful book.. I picked it up because it intrigued me but I found it so interesting.
I could relate to traits of anger in myself, friend’s and family. The tip’s are insightful, practical and actionable .
by N. Bennett
This book gathers together strategies for coping with the angry people in your life.
The author is a psychology professor who has studied anger in his work. He has also started interacting with people on social media, which obviously introduced him to new levels of anger.
With examples and a self-deprecating humour he sets out what anger is, how we feel it ourselves, and how we instinctively react to it.
With a greater understanding of anger and its roots, we can use the various strategies he describes to cope with it in others and ourselves. He has written another book specifically for angry people, but the information in this book is handy for people who perhaps feel anger on a less regular basis.
The strategies laid out work for one-off situations and more long term relationships, although he stresses throughout the book that relationships with physical and emotional abuse should be left and not coped with.
I thought I would just dip into this book but is is an easy read and I think I will find aspects of this book useful in an increasingly angry world.
by sevenpin
Ryan Martin, aka Tiktok’s “The Anger Professor” writes a well researched, helpful, emotionally insightful, and informative guide on the topic of anger that will resonate with almost anyone living in our increasingly fraught and confrontational contemporary world, within relationships, in the home, family, online and other interactions in the public arena. The emotional toll and stress generated by having to deal with angry people on an everyday basis makes this potentially a valuable guide that will appeal to a wide range of readers. However, the author makes it clear this book is not for those in abusive relationships where a person is being regularly harmed physically and emotionally.
It is organised into 2 parts, Part 1 looks towards understanding angry people and their experiences, drawing on psychology research and practice, and explores personality types, biology, emotional development, emotional contagion, and different thinking styles. However, there are situations where anger is a justifiable response and there are cultural inequalities to be found in the different expectations of how anger should be expressed based on race and gender. Anger can be both a state and a personality trait, anger tends to generate a emotional response, angry people are not always monsters, although they can be dangerous and toxic. Part 2 offers 10 strategies on coping with and managing angry people, personally, in relationships and families, and professionally, including the need to work out what you really want, staying calm, recognising anger in its numerous forms, looking at the situation from a angry person’s perspective, etc..
Martin integrates this easy to read guide throughout with tips, case studies, activities and facts that enhance understanding and provide potential opportunities to implement good practice, and contribute towards creating and integrating strategies aiming for the best possible outcomes for the anger scenarios that the reader might find themselves facing. This is a pertinent guide for everyone with the fragmentary world we live in today, and anger is an interesting topic to explore in its own right too. Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.