Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
The Misunderstood Emotion
Published on 15. September 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
383 pages
978-0-671-67523-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on extensive research, a social psychologist and journalist refutes popular myths about the emotion of anger and how it functions and challenges many of the concepts of psychotherapy.
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Edition
Revised, Updated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-671-67523-3 (9780671675233)
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E-Book
08/2017
1st Edition
Touchstone
€15.81
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Person
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.
Content
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