Anger Languages: Understanding Why We React the Way We Do & How to Break the Cycle - Softcover

Dodge Ph.D., Cynthia A.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798995738404

Verlag: Smudge Publications, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You don't just "get angry." You express anger in patterns - patterns that shape your relationships, your reactions, and your self-control. In Anger Languages, psychotherapist, Cynthia A. Dodge, Ph.D. presents a compelling new framework: anger is not a single emotion, but a set of learned, repeatable patterns- distinct "languages" through which distress is expressed and managed.

Some people explode. Others withdraw. Some retaliate. Others carry the weight of guilt that was never theirs to hold. Each of these is an anger language.

What Readers Will Learn
This book helps you:

• Identify your dominant anger patterns
• Understand how early experiences shape emotional responses
• Recognize how anger operates in relationships - not just within individuals
• See the hidden costs of unexamined patterns
• Begin shifting from automatic reaction to intentional response

Pattern Overview
Inside, you'll explore:

• Passive anger that resists through silence and withdrawal
• Explosive anger that escalates rapidly and disrupts connection
• Retaliatory anger that holds, tracks, and repays
• Guilt-inducing anger that shifts responsibility onto others
• Guilt-absorbing patterns that turn anger inward
• Anger as a worldview that shapes perception itself

Grounded in clinical insight and written with clarity and depth, Anger Languages moves beyond simple anger management strategies. It offers a structured way to understand why anger takes the forms it does - and how those patterns can change.

Change does not begin with control. It begins with recognition. Once you can see the pattern, you are no longer fully inside it.

Cynthia A. Dodge, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist with extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families navigating complex emotional and relational patterns. She has been selected for multiple successive years as Best Psychotherapist in Sedona, Arizona. Her clinical work focuses on emotional regulation, attachment dynamics, and the ways in which early experiences shape enduring patterns of behavior.

Dr. Dodge has spent decades helping clients understand not only what they feel, but how those feelings are expressed - often in ways that are deeply ingrained and difficult to recognize without guidance. Anger Languages reflects this work, offering a structured and accessible framework for understanding anger as a patterned, learnable and changeable process.

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Cynthia A. Dodge, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist with extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families navigating complex emotional and relational patterns. Her clinical work focuses on emotional regulation, attachment dynamics, and the ways in which early experiences shape enduring patterns of behavior. She has been names Best Psychotherapist numerous successive years in Sedona, Arizona.Dr. Dodge has spent decades helping clients understand not only what they feel, but how those feelings are expressed - often in ways that are deeply ingrained and difficult to recognize without guidance. Anger Languages reflects this work, offering a structured and accessible framework for understanding anger as a patterned, learnable, and changeable process.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Smudge Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798995738404
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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