What is anger? Who is allowed to be angry? How can we manage our anger? How can we use it? It might seem like a day doesn't go by without some troubling explosion of anger, whether we're shouting at the kids, or the TV, or the driver ahead who's slowing us down. In this book, the first of its kind, Dr. Ryan Martin draws on 20 years plus of research, as well as his own childhood experience of an angry parent, to take an all-round view on this often-challenging emotion. It explains exactly what anger is, why we get angry, how our anger hurts us as well as those around us, and how we can manage our anger and even channel it into positive change. It also explores how race and gender shape society's perceptions of who is allowed to get angry. Dr. Martin offers questionnaires, emotion logs, control techniques and many other tools to help readers understand better what pushes their buttons and what to do with angry feelings when they arise. It shows how to differentiate good anger from bad anger, and reframe anger from being a necessarily problematic experience in our lives to being a fuel that energizes us to solve problems, release our creativity and confront injustice.

About the Author
Dr Ryan Martin is Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In his work in anger, he draws on over 20 years of research, teaching and clinical experience. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, on NPR's Invisibilia podcast and on BBC Radio's The Digital Human. His TED talk Why We Get Mad has been viewed over 3 million times since June 2019. Find out more about Ryan at: www.alltheragescience.com


Book Information
ISBN 9781786784452
Author Dr Ryan Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Watkins Publishing
Publisher Watkins Media Limited