The Anger Trap: Free Yourself from the Frustrations that Sabotage Your Life Author: Visit Amazon's Les Carter Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0787968803 | Format: PDF
The Anger Trap: Free Yourself from the Frustrations that Sabotage Your Life Description
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"The life-changing message of this book...is so important..." ---Audrey DeLaMartre
, The Phoenix and
Steps For Recovery --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Anger Trap is a masterfully written book, offering penetrating insights into the factors that can imprison individuals in unwanted patterns of frustration. With his well-developed insights and using case examples, Les Carter carefully explains how you can change your thinking, your communication, and your behavior as you release yourself from the ravages of anger gone bad."
— from the Foreword by Frank Minirth, M.D.
"Les Carter has assimilated his years of experience counseling people trapped by anger into a book that I believe will prove helpful to many readers. The Anger Trap offers fresh information and understanding that can lead to recovery and reconciliation."
— Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker
"Have you ever looked in a mirror and said 'I don't like what I see!' This book reflects a number of myths we 'wear' and shows us how to trade them in for the real truths."
— June Hunt, radio host of Hope for the Heart
"The best book on anger out there. Five stars!"
— Dr. Tim Clinton, president, American Association of Christian Counselors
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- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (September 2, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787968803
- ISBN-13: 978-0787968809
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Dr. Les Carter has done it again! No wonder he is called "America's Anger Expert." With The Anger Trap he has put together his years of experience and wisdom on this important subject to provide us with a way out of this insidious trap called anger. Years ago I read his first book on the subject, Good 'N Angry (now out of print, I believe), and more recently completed his very practical best-seller, The Anger Workbook. Both exercises helped me deal with issues that subtly yet surely were negatively affecting my life and relationships.
Now comes, I believe, Dr. Carter's "magnum opus." One of the values of The Anger Trap is that Carter not only identifies anger and it's nature, but deals with the root causes (such as fear, loneliness, rejection, insecurity, and especially pain.) "Angry people are hurting, fragile people," Carter points out. And, "At the heart of anger is a cry for respect." But, to me, one of the most insightful observations Carter makes is, "As illogical as it may be, it can seem to outside observers that chronically angry people have a strong commitment to keeping distasteful emotions alive." Carter encourages us to deal with these underlying causes if we are to have any kind of meaningful victory over anger.
The chapter on dependency and hidden insecurity (Chapter 6: "Insecurity's Hold on Angry People") is especially interesting and illuminating. In this chapter Carter discusses how angry people are so busy trying to make others take responsibility for their own emotional stability that they stay stuck in the anger they want to be free of.
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