Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Point of View

1. Rage and Reason -- an Eternal Ambivalence

The Fallacy of the Swami's Snake The Freudian Legacy The Anger Business The Use and Abuse of Anger

2. Uncivil Rites -- the Cultural Rules of Anger

The Judicial Emotion A Brief Madness Manners, Emotions, and the American Way

3. The Anatomy of Anger

Emotions and the Brain Temper and Temperament: The Genetic Ingredient The Fuel of Anger Thinking About Feeling Biological Politics

4. Stress, Illness, and Your Heart -- Myths of Suppressed Anger

Eating Disorders, Overweight, and Ulcers Anger and Depression The Stress Connection Anger and Heart Disease Considerations

5. "Getting It Out of Your System" -- Myths of Expressed Anger

Myth #1: Aggression Myth #2: Talking Out Anger Myth #3: Tantrums The Conditions of Catharsis

6. "Seeing Red"

Frustration Noise Crowds Drivers and Dawdlers Alcohol Exercise and Sports Considerations

7. Shouters, Sulkers, Grouches, and Scolds -- Which Sex Has the Anger Problem?

The Stereotype Up Close The Persistence of Myth Two Cultures

8. The Marital Onion

The Onion Unpeeled The Systems Solution In Praise of Civility

9. A Rage for Justice

The Rationalizing Species The Birth and Death of Anger Temper of the Times

10. Rethinking Anger: Strategies for Living with Anger and Getting Beyond It

Chronic Anger The Difficult Person The Angry Divorce The Aggressive Child The Victim Considerations

Further Reading Notes Bibliography Index