Anger Articles

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• 5 Tips to Increase Your Assertiveness
  “Assertiveness is all about being present in a relationship,” according to Randy Paterson, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author ...
• Anger Trigger Behaviors
  The vast majority of chains of angry behavior never proceed past the first link. For example, someone in the family will tease or insult ...
• Emotionally Focused Therapy: Bolstering Couples’ Emotional Bonds
  Western culture views independence as a virtue. We’ve been taught that a truly strong person doesn’t need anybody to survive ...
• October is Domestic Violence Month
  Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
• Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship
  Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
• I Love You. Now Change.
  She married him because he was hardworking. She was considering divorce because he turned out to be a workaholic who was barely ...
• How a Bully Is Made
  The short- and long-term harm done to bullying victims has received much attention lately. The complex web of factors which go into ...
• A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis
  Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
• In the Zone: Depression and Emotions
  Introduction: This article proposes a non-drug treatment for depression in terms of hidden emotions. It appears that most depression involves ...
• Intimate Relationships As a Vehicle for Growth
  The old paradigm for couples was pretty simple: The man went to work, brought home the money and paid ...
• Payback: An Interview with David Barash, Ph.D. and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D.
  Aggression occurs not only in humans, but in most other species. In fact, ...
• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
• The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results
  Have you ever noticed how good you feel when something gets resolved after complaining about it?  Conversely, if a solution is not reached do you oftentimes feel worse than you did before? Be it in our ...
• Marriage Communication: How Does It Work?
  A good marriage thrives on the open exchange of emotion, desires, and beliefs. In fact, communication is one of the ...
• 5 Communication Pitfalls and Pointers for Couples
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• Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
  You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
• A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
  Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
• Being Good vs. Being Codependent
  Is the way that you are ‘being good’ to your loved ones actually caring and good? Or are you involved in codependent ...
• Got An Angry Kid? Parenting Spike: A Seriously Difficult Child
  Search Barnes and Noble or Amazon for self-help books on “child discipline” and over 8,000 titles show up. Eight thousand! You can find magic 1-2-3, positive discipline, discipline without tears, how to discipline with one ...
• Depression vs. Anger: Discovering the Lesser of Two Evils
  A few years ago, I received some news that sent me spiraling into depression. Not the kind of clinical or major depression that’s best treated ...
• A Lifetime of Joy after Clinical Depression
  This is a true story, as told to us by Alice (not her real name): When I was born my mother was dismayed -- she didn’t want a child ...
• Rejecting Childhood Rejection
  “I can’t figure it out,” one of the writers to Psych Central's "Ask the Therapist" column wrote recently. “My parents never give me any emotional support or even seem to like me. I always get ...
• Dealing with Anger Constructively
  We all get angry. But for some people this basic and powerful human emotion is difficult to manage. We may have trouble expressing anger, or even recognizing it in ourselves. On the other ...
• Reacting on Autopilot: When Good Intentions Fall Short
  Disclaimer: The characters from these vignettes are fictitious. They were derived from a composite of people and events for the purpose of representing real-life situations and psychological dilemmas which occur in families. Julius was a ...
• Leave That Pillow Alone!: Better Ways To Deal with Anger
  Back in the 1970s, at the height of the human potential movement, encounter groups, and third wave psychology, you couldn’t attend a class or workshop without boffers (cushioned bats) coming into play. We ...