Anger Busting Workbook: Simple, Powerful Techniques for Managing Anger & Saving Relationships

This was a VERY helpful and informative book. Would suggest this book first to anyone looking for this literature

Anger Busting Workbook helps you understand that you do not have to be the person that keep having bad relationships with your family, friends, associates do your anger. It shows you how you can stop the rage today.

[[ASIN:188629819X James Baker, Anger busting Workbook: Simple, Powerful Techniques for Managing Anger & Saving Relationships]. What first interested me in this book were the step by step lists for behaviours to watch and change, and expectations for both the angry person and the person living with the anger. Having the book available online to read before buying is how I became aware of the helps it includes. That said, I wonder if it is useful for most angry men without the help of a third person (psychologist) in real life. The men whose difficulty is the subject of this book, may resort to a backlash against it, in their house, thus, putting the spouse at greater risk. If a spouse thinks this may apply to her, I recommend finding it in a library. The author, Baker, recommends getting the help of a local support whether psychology or other. The book emphasizes a particular kind of expression of anger which is particularly destructive to the partner, thus the suggestions to keep taking steps to change, and to get the kind of help needed is essential. This very urgency and extreme case types may scare off some who could use most of the suggestions, but for whom a court order for anger management is not an issue. This book is thorough in the situational possibilities for manipulative anger in everyday life, and for dealing with these in a way that moves both the angry person and the person coping with excessive anger, to find ways to truly improve their lives, for some, by learning to stop the destructive expressions, and for others, to leave. The helps continue with how to safely leave. A resource to reread, carefully.

Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (2/06) In "The Anger Busting Workbook" James Baker gently encourages the reader to identify and face ones own anger. Although this workbook mainly points towards the husband's anger issues, there is a section for the wife to work along side her husband. Baker provides an easy step-by-step solution by first identifying whether or not one has rage issues through self assessment. Once acknowledged that an issue occurs, Baker provides a pledge form to sign and have witnessed as a commitment to addressing anger issues, working the workbook, and abstaining from displaying inappropriate anger. He also provides check lists and a contract to sign with oneself, and as a couple. In the end, Baker provides an opportunity to write new scripts. Research indicates that a process of 90 days will change the habit. Anyone in a 12-step program would recognize that Baker gives the opportunity to work the steps in a concise, well constructed process. The workbook is simple and well designed to address the issues at hand. The hardest part would be the first step - to admit that there is an anger problem. However, Baker gives the process to identify it, if the reader is truthful. I highly recommend this workbook. Baker has taken an issue that affects most families and is giving them the opportunity to address it in a safe and gentle manner.

Too much of what the psychotherapy/self help industry turns out relies heavily on hand-holding, navel-gazing, and fishing expeditions into childhood that can last for years. This approach rarely appeals to men, and it is practically useless when dealing with rageaholics. A-la Dr. Phil, James Baker delivers a kind of in-your-face, step-by-step plan to help anger addicts get an immediate reduction in their level of inappropriate anger. It is filled with practial exercises and down-to-earth language that will challenge angry men to face themselves and quit blaming everyone else for their anger. It also provides a very helpful section for women, to help them figure out how to make safe choices with angry men. The flexible format makes it great for use in a variety of therapeutic settings.