Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion - Hardcover

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Surefire strategies for transforming anger in yourself and others In this must-have resource, Dr. Joseph Shrand offers seven innovative yet remarkably uncomplicated strategies to help turn powerful anger impulses into positive, success-oriented actions. These brain-based techniques teach you how to recognize the many forms of anger we all experience, and how to tap into your brain's very own anger absorption zone the prefrontal cortex . Dr. Shrand also explores the ways these techniques can be used to harness the anger of others. When we learn to recognize and diffuse the anger response of any individual, we improve our chances for success in every aspect of life. Explains how the power of anger can be turned into much more productive behaviors Outlines 7 simple strategies for outsmarting the lizard brain and the primitive limbic system Published in partnership with Harvard Health publications, a division of Harvard Medical School Outsmarting Anger helps you manage and decrease not only your own anger, but the anger of people around you so everyone can be more successful.

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Praise for Outsmarting Anger

"Outsmarting Anger is vibrant, comprehensive, and smart—an in-depth exploration that's an easy read, practical, and, most important, helpful."
—Samuel Shem, MD, PhD, author, The House of God and The Spirit of the Place

"Joe Shrand's unique and brilliantly organized perspective on perhaps the most primitive yet mysterious of human emotions is an essential read for anyone faced with taming anger that emanates either from within or without."
—Eric J. Parker, trial lawyer and managing partner, Parker Scheer LLP, Boston

"In Outsmarting Anger, Dr. Joseph Shrand expresses brilliantly the causes of this most disturbing human emotion and explains how we can all try to control it and even sometimes benefit from it."
—Philip W. Johnston, former New England administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

"Combining an accessible translation of contemporary neuroscience, maturity as a seasoned clinician, good ole common sense, and straight talk, Joe Shrand has written a practical guide to help defuse the destructiveness of anger—ours as much as others'."
—Andres Martin, MD, MPH, editor-in-chief, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry