Anger Work: How to Express Your Anger and Still Be Kind

by Robert Puff

In Anger How To Express Your Anger And Still Be Kind Dr. Puff explains why it is detrimental to your own emotional well-being to take out your anger on others through verbal abuse or unkind actions. Here Dr. Puff shares the highly effective techniques of Anger Work he has used for over 15 years to help clients * Rage * Depression * Stress-Induced Illness * Marital or Parent/Child Strife * Irritability /Moodiness * Grief * Healing From Past Abuse Dr. Puff gives specific hands-on techniques you can begin using immediately. These include strategies to use at work, on the road, in your home, or during a work-out.

104 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

Reviews

[Esra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Now for those of you who don’t get angry because
you feel guilty when you get mad. Perhaps you have been
taught by your family, teachers, or religious community that
it is wrong to get angry, or that it should be a brief phase
passed through as quickly as possible on your way to
forgiveness. Well, I say that anger is a normal, human
emotion. And when managed correctly, it plays an
important role in the maintenance of a healthy psyche,
body, and spirit.


The reason is that they find their thoughts continually returning to particular memories, worries,
feelings of guilt, or self-doubt.

I have observed that there are only two emotions which children express to help themselves heal. These two emotions are ANGER and SADNESS.

With Anger Work the road to healing is so clear.
All tragic events in life, whether large or small, may be
overcome and healed by simply reflecting on the negative
event, releasing anger,


Any form of exercise can be used as an effective way to express
anger.

They may create a descriptive image with
their angry feelings, or they may create and then destroy
some piece of art. It is best to let your anger flow as you
create.

[Marshal Mdeza]

Anger therapy for free.

[Ypatios Varelas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some interesting points about anger and what to do and what not to do. The book is weak on the "how-to" side. There are much more useful books on the subject so I cannot recommend it.

[Chrissie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The emphasis is on every day anger work and how to do that. The book stresses the necessity of anger work. The message is that anger work has to be done right and basically on a daily basis to be effective. Puff gives some examples of practical anger work one can easily use to begin with. Then you basically need to do anger work on a regular, eventually daily basis until there's nothing left to do anger work on (you'd notice by means of self-monitoring and -reflexion when you're there). I like Puff's way of keeping things simple. That's a big plus.

Puff's "Anger Work" gave me the excuse to finally get the "Superhot VR" game for my VR headset. When I first played the demo version I stopped right on the spot when I would have had to grab a pistol and shoot a red humanoid figure. Instead of taking the pistol and shooting the figure, I exited the demo. Giving it a second thought, I found "Superhot VR" fully in line with some of the recommendations for (harder) anger work Puff gives. In "Superhot VR" you don't fight humans. You fight humanoid red figures. And the means you fight them with do the job of anger work pretty well. It's also physically exhausting since "Superhot VR" is played standing in roomscale mode. And physically exhausting anger work is what Dr Puff recommends as the most effective form of anger work (what ever type of anger work you do, you need to focus on the memories causing your anger while you work out on them). "Superhot VR" should be sold bundled with Dr Puff's "Anger Work" in my opinion. So yes, one month after leaving the demo early, I got "Superhot VR" anyway, although I basically detest violence. And no, of course I'm not playing casually, as said, I'm using it for anger work with other forms of anger work recommended by Dr Puff.

[Lizi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Standard Dr. Puff peacefulness.