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Lynn D. Johnson Ph.D. www.solutions-consulting.com
Author, Get on the
Peace Train. A Journey From Anger to Harmony
Johnson's description of the book:
When I was getting my Ph.D. degree, we studied the various mental
disorders, anxiety, depression, psychosis . . . we memorized diagnostic
trees and practiced diagnostic interviews.
Soon we could distinguish
unipolar from bipolar depression, alcohol abuse from dependence, and
dissociative identity disorder from Munchausen s syndrome. When I
began practicing as a psychologist, I discovered something quite
alarming. Something had been left out! Anger was an emotional issue that
caused my patients more problems than depression and anxiety. I had no
training in it. What was worse was that in those days there seemed to be
a sense of approval for people expressing anger. The notion seemed to
be that by acting angry, we would somehow be better communicators. There
was even a psychologist who specialized in teaching people how to fight
fair in marriage, how to harness anger in supposedly constructive ways.
That was not my own experience. I found that when I got angry at my
wife, and tried to express that, things got worse rather than better. If
I expressed anger at co-workers, the outcome was tension and anger
coming right back at me. I wondered about my own profession. I wondered
if we were rather foolish to think that anger was helpful. It hasn t
helped to see that over the years, nationally recognized marriage and
family therapists, many personal friends of mine, have gotten divorced.
We had sown openness and honesty, speaking up when angry and now we were
reaping the whirlwind. Yet it is so easy to become angry. Why was
that? I struggled to keep a cool head, to measure my responses and yet
it was all so simple to just let go.
I was amazed at how easily I and
others seem to be able to be angry. I found more and more people who
were frightened and intimidated by angry people in their families, and I
realized how anger was a bully s way, how one could get cheap power by
throwing anger around. I wrote this book because I want to share with
others what I have learned about transforming anger into respect,
cooperation, and effectiveness.
Size: 29,842,756 -- 1 hrs, 22 min, 53 sec
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