Calm Down
By Dr Paul Hauck - a Sheldon Press book

How do you react to situations that don't run according to plan? How do you cope with people who won't do things your way? Do you let life's frustrations build up inside you until you explode with anger and rage?

If so, your reactions may backfire and make you ill, preventing you from dealing effectively with the problem and making you unhappy. This book will help you to control anger - and to handle life's frustrations - by showing you how to understand our feelings and reaction to them. Once you understand what you are doing to yourself, you can change direction. You don't need to be bitter, spiteful, or resentful simply because you are not getting your own way.

Dr Hauck approaches the problem of anger and frustration with the same level-headed reasoning used in his best-selling book Depression.

'..... excellent ... Dr Hauck talks so much sense."
Virginia Ironside, agony aunt

Contents:

• How to smile at anger
• Should all anger be avoided?
• How you make yourself angry
• How to keep things in proportion
• Blame
• In place of anger
• Making it work

Preface

Anger is not only a very uncomfortable emotional state, it is also potentially a very dangerous one. We all know what this means, because one or more times during our lives we have all been pushed to a point where we could have become violent or in many cases actually did become so. Prisons are filled with violent men, marriages are broken because hatred developed between two people who once loved each other dearly, and the crime rate in society has risen because millions of us have responded to frustrations with increased bitterness and anger.

It is time that we understood this emotion. It is time that we considered other ways of responding to frustrations. It is not necessary to become bitter, spiteful, or resentful simply because we are not getting our way. Unfortunately, an understanding of the psychology of anger is lacking in the general public, and it is for this reason that I wrote this book. Becoming an unangry person is not so difficult if one is first shown how to achieve an unangry state. The discussions of case material and of techniques that follow in these pages will give the reader all that he needs to know to master his self-righteous indignation. You can, if you apply yourself vigorously enough, learn to overcome anger for the rest of your life for all practical purposes. You will also learn how to be a firm and self-assertive person who does not let others walk over him, but who manages to do this in a civil and polite way. If this has been your desire and you have found it impossible to achieve, then read on and apply the principles you are about to discover.
P.A.H.

About the author:
"Dr Paul Hauck, PhD, is a full-time clinical psychologist in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, and has lectured widely on various aspects of psychology. He has written many articles for professional journals, and is the author of the following books published by Sheldon Press - Calm Down, Jealousy, How to Stand up for Yourself, How to Love and Be Loved, Depression, How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Hold Your Head Up High and How to Cope with People Who Drive You Crazy".