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Steven Laurent, Ross G Menzies 
Featuring the wisdom and wit of: Confucius, The Bible, Yoda, Billy Connolly, George Bernard Shaw, Jerry Seinfeld, Dale Carnegie, Ricky Gervais, Larry David, and many more.
Its been 10 years since this ground-breaking, best-selling book told us the inconvenient truth that anger is such a toxic human emotion that we should try to avoid it at all times — even when we think it might be helpful! It was written by two of Australia's leading clinical psychologists, Dr Steven Laurent and Ross Menzies, who passionately believe in the need to reduce anger and have seen the positive effects of reduced anger in their own therapy clients.
Today, this book's message for all of us is as vital and relevant as ever.
The anger and division we see today so freely expressed on our screens and the streets of our cities and suburbs may sweep us up in emotion, compelling us to take our stand and join our angry voices with others. After all, how else do we create the change we want? Surely our anger is right and we must use it to drive action and strongly oppose those who disagree?
Well, actually, all anger does is hurt both your mental health and the health and wellbeing of those around you. It is rarely ever helpful to one’s own benefit, let alone any discussion, debate, or argument toward solutions. Its destructive effects are much more toxic than previously acknowledged. In fact, when we are angry, we hold an irrational mindset that blinds us to self-righteous judgements propelling our behaviour in all the wrong ways.
But it isn't always easy to avoid getting angry, especially when we see something we believe needs to be stopped, changed, solved, or avoided.
So, to help ourselves and the complex world in which we live, we need to learn more about anger, its uses, its origins, and how we might substitute empathy and understanding in its place. We need to learn why we get angry and how to try and lessen and remove our anger to be more effective agents for change in our own lives and those of others.
So why not make a small investment in good mental health and a better world? Buy a copy of the Anger Fallacy today.
About the authors
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"As a clinical psychologist, I can honestly say this is the finest book on anger I have ever explored. Witty, fun, and filled with engaging facts about anger, this book has the potential to really change people. It challenges conventional thoughts on anger and how to deal with it. A thoroughly modern treatment on the darkest of all emotions. Highly recommended."
- Margot, Clinical Psychologist
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"I am a psychiatrist. While I trained at a highly regarded Ivy League residency program and have since kept abreast of the literature, I have always felt insufficiently prepared to assess and manage anger in my patients. Anger doesn't have a home in our current diagnostic system, yet it is so often associated with nearly every disorder that we treat and even causes significant harm in individuals who present without satisfying criteria for any diagnosis. While occasionally anger subsides in the successfully treated borderline, bipolar, depressed, anxious, or paranoid patient; even after syndromal remission it often continues to cause our patients suffering and interpersonal impairment. I have too often been at a loss at how to help these patients with their anger as well as how to help those patients presenting with a primary complaint of anger without other symptoms. We don't have a medication specific for anger and it has never been quite clear to me how to best address it with psychotherapy... until now.
The Anger Fallacy is one of the best treatment books that I have ever read. Uniquely, it is a tremendous resource for both patients and clinicians. It is accessible and amusing such that patients need not be overwhelmed, yet sophisticated and layered to the point that I have found myself continuously harvesting pearls after multiple readings. Written in elegant and sprightly prose, this book tackles anger from all sides, squeezing the life out of it with logic, appeals to pragmatics, cognitive reframing, and humor. The multidimensional approach makes it adaptable to nearly any patient and the colorful examples make each lesson easy to retain and fun to recount. Several times already, I have had success using examples from the book in my practice; then once the patient's attention was captive, I managed to persuade them without difficulty to read the book. Each time they thanked me for the recommendation.
This book could greatly benefit anyone who has struggled with anger, knows an angry person, works with angry people, or who is interested generally in transcending the negative thoughts and emotions that we all occasionally buy into to our own detriment. I congratulate the authors on a superb addition to our clinical arsenal."
- JB, Psychiatrist
"This is a book meant to challenge us. The authors have taken such an engaging and witty approach that the reader is likely to get hooked and will stop to think — to reflect. The humorous story is a device, along with creative metaphors, analogies and dialogue scripts, which the authors use to convey the compelling logic of their argument about the counter-productiveness of anger. I strongly recommend this book. If you are suffering with your anger it will give you a lift."
- Roger Dooley, Adjunct Professor, Clinical Psychologist
"This is such a good book - I have started recommending it to anyone who is struggling with being angry.
It is easy to read, non-judgemental, and helpful.
It helps put a lot of difficult emotional stuff into perspective."
- nicdea
