The Dance of Anger: Woman's Guide to Changing the Pattern of Intimate Relationships - Softcover

Lerner, Harriet G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044408668 ISBN 13: 9780044408666

Publisher: Pandora, 1995

Synopsis

Written as a guide for all women, regardless of age, background or life experience showing how they can turn their anger into a constructive force for changing their lives. The author, a psychotherapist, draws on a decade of clinical investigatiion as well as recent findings in psychoanalytic theory, to show how and why anger so often prolongs rather than challenges existing harmful dynamics in relationships. She provides specific strategies for making meaningful and lasting changes in important relationships with friends, family and lovers.

About this title

About the Author

Harriet Lerner is a staff psychologist and psychotherapist at the Meninger Foundation in the US. Her work on the psychology of women and on the mangement of anger and conflict has earned her national recognition amonger general and professional audiences.

From the Back Cover

Do you find yourself always fighting with your nearest and dearest, distancing yourself through silence, or blaming others for the failure of your relationships?

For so many women anger is a destructive force which perpetuates all the harmful dynamics of our most intimate relationships. In this classic, inspirational book, renowned feminist psychotherapist Harriet G. Lerner shows how all women, regardless of age, background or experience, can turn anger into a constructive force.

Focusing largely on the family, 'The Dance of Anger' provides the reader with the insights and practical skills to stop behaving in the old predictable ways and to begin to use anger to establish a more positive approach to significant relationships.

"An inspirational book"
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Edition details

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0044408668
• ISBN 13: 9780044408666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256