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Article: Film Style: Mad for it; Road rage, plane rage and technological tantrums. It seems the whole world is on a short fuse. Mike Davies finds out why anger management is all the (ahem) rage.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2003
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Byline: Mike Davies
There's nothing wrong with anger. It's a completely normal human emotion that, as Halle Berry observes in X-Men 2, can help you survive.
And a healthy anger can get the job done, says Mike Fisher, personal development psychotherapist and facilitator with the British Association of Anger Management. What you need to do is calmly communicate that anger as assertiveness. There's a difference.
Anger uncontrolled and used aggressively, though, is a dangerous thing - physically, emotionally and psychologically. It doesn't do the person on the receiving ...