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From Chapter 1: So, You're Angry Or our own anger rises and results in some form of destructive behavior and/or a sense of guilt. a parent grows impatient at a child's slowness in understanding a mathematics problem and burst out with,"What's wrong with you?" People are frequently sent to me, or come to me voluntarily, because they have bad tempers that interfere with their work relationships. They are said to fly off the handle, or lose control in a vicious rage. Yet anger is common to all people and, in fact, plays a large part in the natural processes which make us individuals as well as those which make us social beings... Excerpted from From Fear to Fury by H. Johns. Copyright © 1989. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved |
Anger, as an enemy, lures us into formless withdrawals and depressions, fractures and stagnates our relationships, blocks our way toward understanding and saps our energy to change ourselves and our world. Anger, as a friend, is a vehicle that allows and often pushes us to know that we are individual selves; guides and often forces us into social relationships; confronts and illuminates our path toward reality and provides us with energy to change ourselves and our world. According to H. D. Johns, author of this highly readable and informative book: "Anger is always a structure fueled by fear." And although this is not a new idea, the author claims it has never been fully explored, explained or understood. Johns has been studying anger for the past twenty-five years, and his expertise is highly evident in this truly engrossing and scholarly work. He breaks down this most basic of human emotions into four types: frustration, resentment, defiance and indignation. In concise and eloquent language, Johns shows the reader how and why these emotions are fueled byu fear and suggests ways of successfully dealing with them, both in ourselves and in others. Johns has developed a unique and innovative format for overcoming this common, but sometimes deadly, emotion. Included here are tables and illustrations designed to hnelp the reader pinpoint and identify his particular anger type. Especially helpful are the author's own experiences and techniques, which are detailed here, using actual case studies, each of which offers concrete and specific suggestions on how to deal with the anger that is in all of us. From the PublisherThis is the only book I have found that clearly explains how all anger is fueled by fear-threat. Dr. Johns notes four anger types: Frustration, Resentment, Defiance and indignation. The reader is led to distingish his/her own basic type. Case histories illustrate each type and ways of dealing with each type of anger is clearly explained.. From the AuthorA student of religions, sociology and psychology and a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years I have been writing this book since a day 25 years ago when I was frightened by my own display of rage and resolved to find out what caused it. The central idea of this book is that anger is always a structure based on fear-threat. That idea is not new, but it has never been explored. It has vast ramifications in the way we think and act, some of which are suggested in this book. Understood, it will speak with importance to the way we raise our children, the way we talk to each other, the way we run our organizations, the way we attempt to correct criminal behavior in individuals and nations, and the way we relate to a world of discrepancies where evil is a misnomer for fear-anger. From Fear To Fury , by H.D. Johns (250 pages; Hardcover;
Vantage Press, Inc.;
ISBN: 0533083567;
June 1989) |