Anger is universal. Unchecked, it can cause lasting damage in our lives: wrecked relationships, lost jobs, even serious disease. All of us have acted in anger -- and often wished we hadn't. Is there a way that really works to solve problems and assert ourselves without being angry? The answer is a resounding yes, if you follow the breakthrough precepts of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) set forth in this book. Dr. Albert Ellis and Dr. Raymond Chip Tafrate present here their proven approach to helping people deal effectively with emotional problems and show you how to use their techniques to systematically understand the roots and nature of your anger. Using easy-to-master instructions and exercises, readers can learn to live unhysterically in an often difficult and unfair world. REBT will reduce angry reactions and help to challenge and eliminate the anger that can frustrate success and happiness at home, at work, anywhere.

Famed psychotherapist Albert Ellis, & psychologist Michael Abrams show how the dying person can stave off depression & seize what opportunities for enjoyment are still available. Even when terminal cancer, AIDS, or other death-dealing afflictions strike, people have choices & they can learn how to cope, & to enjoy their remaining days. Shows how to deal with guilt & anger & put an end to hysteria. Reveals how friends & loved ones who panic over impending death may harmfully influence the one they grieve for, to impose needless suffering, & may foster terror & withdrawal from healthy involvements. Their heartwarming stories of successful coping by the celebrated & the obscure offer the reader comfort & aid at a time when both are sorely needed.