When Someone You Love Is Angry - by W Doyle Gentry (Paperback)

About the Book

A clinical psychologist and anger expert offers compassionate, practical insight to those with angry loved ones, providing coping strategies that help strengthen emotional intimacy and establish boundaries-and avoid being held hostage to a partner's angry words and behavior.

Book Synopsis

Clinical psychologist and anger expert W. Doyle Gentry offers compassionate, practical insight to those with angry loved ones, providing coping strategies that help strengthen emotional intimacy and establish boundaries-and avoid being held hostage to a partner's angry words and behavior.

When Someone You Love Is Angry combines the latest research with real-life testimony, resulting in a survival guide for those exposed to toxic anger, outlining a unique seven-step program to minimize the emotional damage of loving, but angry, relationships:

- Reaching out for support
- Abandoning the eight myths about love and anger
- Recognizing and putting a stop to abusive behavior
- Avoiding facilitation of the anger syndrome
- Refraining from angry responses
- Innoculating oneself against stress
- Exploring one's options

About the Author

W. Doyle Gentry, Ph.D., is an author, educator, scientist, consultant and clinical psychologist, whose career spans 30 years. His scholarly work-which includes over 100 professional and scientific publications-is cited as an authoritative source by top anger researchers and therapists. He lectures and gives workshops extensively, both in the United States and abroad. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Journal of Behavioral Medicine, a post he has held for more than 25 years.