When Anger Hits Home: Taking Care of Your Anger Without Taking It Out on Your Family

by H. Norman Wright

Book Overview

The costs of ill-expressed anger are high and have caused irreparable damage to far too many people. Wright and Oliver explore the sources and patterns of anger, help readers understand that anger is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802492371
• ISBN13: 9780802492371
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read for pastoral counselors

This book is most helpful in helping the people helper understand the true and healthy role anger has as a boundary emotion. It is helpful in getting people to understand how anger is used in abuse and manipulation of women and children.This book is helpful in gaining undestanding that men and women process anger differently - and how they do it. However, when Norman Wright gets right down to the issue of domestic violence and prevention, he does not take the bull by the horns - telling the women and children to leave. He seems to hold out hope that abusers will go for help, which does not often happen, as I have heard and my area statistics bear out.This book does help open closed eyes to the facts that anger out of control is abuse. His answers fall short of a complete answer but are better than some in the Christian counseling industry.It is an introduction to anger and how it can be manifested in positive ways or in abuse. And the goals of this book are to prevent anger outbursts from disrupting relationships and harming lives and becoming a family legacy. It is , more than anything, a book of prevention worth reading and putting into practice.