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Title: Facing the Fire : Experiencing and Expressing Anger Appropriately by William Stott, John Lee ISBN: 0-553-37240-8 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb if releasing anger is tough
Comment: This book is for people who have trouble with releasing their negative emotions. John Lee explains effectively the benefits from emotional release while at the same time providing some techniques for helping people with repressed anger that are simple, down-to-earth, and reasonable for people to use. This book has helped me a great deal personally, and I think it will help anyone with depression or difficulties releasing anger.
Rating: 5
Summary: Breakthrough In Understanding Anger
Comment: .
Mr. Lee's approach to discharging/expressing anger safely is RIGHT ON. Many people might think that by expressing anger - they will become more angry. In reality, you are uncovering the suppressed anger that has been inside of you all your life. You are merely becoming AWARE of it. We spend our entire lives stuffing/repressing/avoiding/medicating our anger. We will do anything but FACE it - and get it out.
The good news. The amount of suppressed anger inside us is finite and can be discharged. Mr. Lee would be interested in knowing that a retired neuroscientist (Ellie Van Winkle) has discovered almost exactly the same thing about anger. Her free therapy - "Redirecting Self Therapy", teaches a unique way to safely release anger - free without a therapist. Can't provide a link here, but you can do your own search later. What Ellie's theory gives us, is a biological explanation for what John Lee expresses throughout his book.
Also, John Lee has a unique theory about mental illness. Basically, he believes that trauma causes us to continually try and recreate the circumstances of original trauma, so that the mind has a 2nd opportunity to heal itself. Well, Mr. Lee, you might find the following of interest from Ellie Van Winkle:
"The fantasies in which I lived for close to sixty years were unconscious attempts to recreate early traumas and provide a stage wherein I could redirect my anger toward my parents."
Anger is connected to just about every mental/emotional disorder under the sun. Discharge that anger and your mind begins to heal.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not helpful for most angry people.
Comment: Two reasons I would not recommend this book 1) Was not an appropriate fit. The books title or description should point out better that this books is for people who can't feel, or always suppress anger. If you have a problem of inappropriately expressing anger (like myself), this book has some decent ideas, but really is not for you. Reason 2) - I cannot find that the authors have any credentials other than their personal experiences (which only relate to stuffing anger, not being too angry). Not only is the support for their stance only anecdotal, it is often contradictory. I have learned myself, and they also write, that most of our anger, and the way we deal with it are learned responses to our environment. While we are all born with the ability to be angry, we all learn different ways to deal with it, some appropriate, some inappropriate. Yet, just after stating this, the book goes on to say that we can do very little with our anger cognitively, 'as it is a feeling of the body, not the mind'. That is only one example of the many contradictory stances. There are many other statements that I just cannot agree with. Whether you have a problem with stuffing your anger, or expressing it too much, I would not recommend this as a first book as there are others that would be much more helpful.
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Title: Growing Yourself Back Up by John Lee ISBN: 0609806416 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Flying Boy : Healing the Wounded Man by John Lee ISBN: 1558740066 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The MindBody Workbook by David Schechter M.D. ISBN: 1929997051 Publisher: MindBody Medicine Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: To Be or Not to Be... Pain-Free: The Mindbody Syndrome by Marc D. Sopher ISBN: 1410707873 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Flying Boy Book II: The Journey Continues by John Lee ISBN: 1558741801 Publisher: Health Communications Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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