When Someone You Love Is Angry

Clinical psychologist and anger expert W. Doyle Gentry offers compassionate, practical insight to those with angry loved ones, providing coping strategies that help strengthen emotional intimacy and establish boundaries-and avoid being held hostage to a partner's angry words and behavior.

When Someone You Love Is Angry combines the latest research with real-life testimony, resulting in a survival guide for those exposed to toxic anger, outlining a unique seven-step program to minimize the emotional damage of loving, but angry, relationships:

- Reaching out for support
- Abandoning the eight myths about love and anger
- Recognizing and putting a stop to abusive behavior
- Avoiding facilitation of the anger syndrome
- Refraining from angry responses
- Innoculating oneself against stress
- Exploring one's options

When Someone You Love is AngryPreface
Chapter One: your Love, Their Anger
Chapter Two: How Angry is Too Angry?
Chapter Three: Why Are They So Angry?
Chapter Four: Stop the Anger
Chapter Five: Damage Assesment
Chapter Six: Is It Possible to Change?
Chapter Seven: Step One: Reaching Out
Chapter Eight: Step Two: Get Your Mind Right
Chapter Nine: Step Three: Set Limits
Chapter Ten: Step Four: Don't Be a Facilitator
Chapter Eleven: Step Five: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
Chapter Twelve: Step Six: Stress Inoculation
Chapter Thirteen: When All Else Fails
Epilogue
Notes