When anger hurts: quieting the storm within

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This [book] is a ... step-by-step guide to changing habitual anger-generating thoughts while developing healthier, more effective ways of meeting your needs. It includes new chapters on emergency anger control, the interpersonal and physiological costs of anger, road rage, and parental anger.-Back cover.;Preface to the second edition -- How to use this book -- Myths of anger -- Physiological costs of anger -- Interpersonal costs of anger -- Assessing the cost of your anger -- Anger as a choice, the two-step model of anger -- Who's responsible -- 24-hour anger management --Combating trigger thoughts -- Controlling stress step by step -- Problem solving -- Stopping escalation -- Coping through healthy self-talk -- Anger inoculation -- Response choice rehearsal -- Effective communication -- Anger as a defense -- Road rage -- Anger and children -- Spouse abuse / Kim Paleg -- Appendix: Response choice rehearsal (RCR) group protocol.