Anger Management

Introduction

What’s Eating You?

What’s eating you? Phrases like this humble me to the fact that most of psychology is and always will be the “science of common sense.” This term of everyday slang acknowledges that when people become irritated or enraged over something, they are simultaneously consumed by it. Anger is a toxic emotion. Poor anger management destroys relatio nships, makes us lose our jobs and our families, keeps people we might want to get to know better at arms length, and in the very worst of all cases, results in behavior that injures or kills other human beings.

Most anger management programs teach anger control as a series of techniques that address the way you think about your thoughts. A “thinking about thinking” approach ...