Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion - Hardcover

Shrand, Joseph; Devine, Leigh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118135482 ISBN 13: 9781118135488

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2013

Synopsis

Surefire strategies for transforming anger in yourself and others In this must-have resource, Dr. Joseph Shrand offers seven innovative yet remarkably uncomplicated strategies to help turn powerful anger impulses into positive, success-oriented actions. These brain-based techniques teach you how to recognize the many forms of anger we all experience, and how to tap into your brain's very own anger absorption zone the prefrontal cortex. Dr. Shrand also explores the ways these techniques can be used to harness the anger of others. When we learn to recognize and defuse the anger response of any individual, we improve our chances for success in every aspect of life.

• Explains how the power of anger can be turned into much more productive behaviors
• Outlines 7 simple strategies for outsmarting the lizard brain and the primitive limbic system
• Published in partnership with Harvard Health publications, a division of Harvard Medical School

Outsmarting Anger helps you manage and decrease not only your own anger, but the anger of people around you so everyone can be more successful.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Shrand, MD, is an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a past assistant child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the medical director of CASTLE (Clean and Sober Teens Living Empowered), a new intervention unit for at-risk teens that is part of the respected High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, Massachusetts.

Leigh Devine, MS, is an award-winning medical writer and television producer who has been humanizing and explaining complicated medical stories for more than fifteen years.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Outsmarting Anger

"Outsmarting Anger is vibrant, comprehensive, and smart—an in-depth exploration that's an easy read, practical, and, most important, helpful."
—Samuel Shem, MD, PhD, author, The House of God and The Spirit of the Place

"Joe Shrand's unique and brilliantly organized perspective on perhaps the most primitive yet mysterious of human emotions is an essential read for anyone faced with taming anger that emanates either from within or without."
—Eric J. Parker, trial lawyer and managing partner, Parker Scheer LLP, Boston

"In Outsmarting Anger, Dr. Joseph Shrand expresses brilliantly the causes of this most disturbing human emotion and explains how we can all try to control it and even sometimes benefit from it."
—Philip W. Johnston, former New England administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

"Combining an accessible translation of contemporary neuroscience, maturity as a seasoned clinician, good ole common sense, and straight talk, Joe Shrand has written a practical guide to help defuse the destructiveness of anger—ours as much as others'."
—Andres Martin, MD, MPH, editor-in-chief, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

From the Inside Flap

When it comes to anger, there's something you may not know. It's not always your anger that gets in the way of your success; very often, it is the anger of others that is the roadblock to your achieving your goals.

In Outsmarting Anger, noted expert Dr. Joseph Shrand reveals what happens inside the brain when the dark forces of anger begin to erupt. But in each of us are built-in mechanisms that can be harnessed to counteract anger's potentially destructive explosion. He outlines seven techniques for recognizing the many forms of anger and tapping into your brain's powerful anger management zone—the prefrontal cortex:

• Recognize Rage
• Envision Envy
• Sense Suspicion
• Project Peace
• Engage Empathy
• Communicate Clearly
• Trade Thanks

Published in partnership with Harvard Health Publications, Outsmarting Anger explores the ways you can overcome anger in yourself and explains how to harness and transform the anger of others.When we learn to recognize and defuse the anger response of any individual, we improve our chances for success in every aspect of life.

Using the tools outlined in this must-have resource, you will be able to gain control over anger and turn it into a healthy, productive power.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118135482
• ISBN 13: 9781118135488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256