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ALSO BY DR. ALBERT ELLIS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
1 - Must You Feel Angry?
2 - How You Create Your Own Anger: The ABCs of REBT
3 - The Insanity of Anger
4 - Looking for Self-Angering Philosophies
5 - Understanding Your Self-Angering Philosophies
6 - Disputing Your Self-Angering Philosophies
7 - Some Methods of Thinking Your Way out of Anger
8 - Some Methods of Feeling Your Way out of Anger
9 - Some Methods of Acting Your Way out of Anger
Take specific risks
Risk rejection by asking for something
Risk saying no or refusing something yourself
Do something ridiculous or “shameful”
Deliberately fail at an important task—or act as if you had
Assert yourself coolly
Rehearse resistance to giving in
Courageous confrontation
Feedback
Prior preparation
Clearly distinguish assertion from aggression
Acting assertively
Exposure to hostility
Constructive activities
Early conditioning
Diversionary measures
Coping procedures
Cognitive awareness and desensitization
10 - More Rethinking About Your Anger
11 - Ripping Up Your Rationalizations for Remaining Angry
12 - More Ways of Overcoming Anger
Review of pragmatic results
Frustration reduction
High frustration tolerance
Counterattacking narcissism and grandiosity
Liberalization of attitudes
Knowledge of history
Awareness of the harm of anger and violence
Focusing on reprisal
Abuse of weaker individuals
Political violence
Religious warfare
Belief in the power of aversive harm
Prejudice against self and others
Taking on characteristics of those you hate
Anger as a “pain in the gut”
Interference with individuality within groups
Interference with activism
Interference with the rights of others
Deification of all aggressiveness
Overgeneralized and unfair discrimination
Ignoring long-range values
The perpetuation of disturbance
Interference with helping others to change
Encouraging feelings of depression
Psychosomatic reactions
Genocide
Understanding attribution theory
Combating romanticism and unrealism
Overcoming feelings of inadequacy
Familiarity and ritualistic behavior
Fair fighting
Avoidance of drugs and alcohol
Lack of reinforcement
A philosophy of fallibility
Countering abuse of children and subordinates
Dealing with counteraggression
Nonviolence as a philosophy
Recognizing the irony of hatred
Humanistic values
Focusing on the pain of the victim
Focusing on relating to others
Discriminate the constructive aspects of anger
Cooperative outlook
Diversionary methods of overcoming anger
Antidepressive methods
Training courses and workshops
13 - Accepting Yourself With Your Anger
14 - Postscript: How to Deal With International Terrorism
Appendix: Techniques for Disputing Irrational Beliefs (DIBS)
References
About the Authors
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