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Don't get even -- get mad, and get over it!
When your love life is boring, maybe you don't fight enough? When sex leaves a person cold, is frozen anger the problem? If you work too much, eat too much, drink too much, is it because you are afraid to get mad? Did you ever think of your anger as something constructive?
When you lose your temper honestly, it can be good for you. In this perennially bestselling book, eminent psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin shows how one of the most powerful human emotions can change your life. Suppressed or twisted anger can lead to anxiety, depression, insomnia, psychosomatic illness, alcoholism, frigidity, impotence, and downright misery. But understanding and releasing anger can lead to greater health, happiness, and emotional wholeness.
Let Dr. Rubin show you how to be what you are: a human being.
Contents
Introduction
1 BEGINNINGS
Even the Saints
Learning
Let Freedom Ring
Victims of Victims
Two Big Blocks
One Smaller Block
2 PERVERSIONS
Putting It Down
Putting It Off
Putting It On
Diluting It
Freezing It
3 TWISTING IT: THE ASSORTED POISONS
Anxiety
Depression
Guilt, Overeating, Self-Imposed Starvation
No Sleep and Sleep Sleep
Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Chronic Anticipation, Obsessive Ruminating, Peculiar Thoughts
Traps: Obsessions, Compulsions, Phobias
"No, No, No! A Thousand Times No!" -- Denial
Self-Sabotage
Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, and the Blood Pressure Goes Up, Up, Up
Talk, Talk, Talk, and No Talk
Let's Pretend: Imitations of Anger
Bullying
Supersweet Talk
Blatant Blasting
Overworking, Oversexing, Overexercising
Savers
Subtle Sabotage
"I'm with You"
Half-Poisons
"Don't Worry About Me"
Easy Talk
Auto Poison
Telling the Truth
Spread It Around
"Someone Dies"
Always Tired
Joking and Boring
Phony Peace
"I'm So Sick"
Forevermore
Poison Poisons: Drugs
Juice-Stewing
Slush-Fund Explosions
Short Circuits
4 UNTWISTING: PROPHYLAXIS AND ANTIDOTES
What Is It?
Black and White
Feel and Tell
Timing
Who
Anger Doesn't Kill
Drop Dead!
Forgive and Forget
With or Without Justice
Appropriate and Inappropriate
By the Sex
By Age
Warm, Cold, and In-Between
All or Nothing
The Big Blow-Up
To Be Angry and to Be Mad While the Storm Blows Angry Psychiatrists
5 TAKING A CHANCE ON ANGER
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