When Anger Hurts Your Relationship: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival

When Anger Hurts Your Relationship is a first-aid manual for angry couples. Psychologists and best-selling authors Matthew McKay and Kim Paleg present an array of tools and strategies that couples can use to reduce conflict, diffuse intense rages, and move beyond repeated anger dynamics. Each chapter is chock-full of proven cognitive-behavioral techniques to help couples reconcile their differences and begin to heal from the hurt that's already been done.

“"When Anger Hurts Your Relationship is useful, practical, exceptionally well organized, and insightful. I will certainly recommend this book to my angry couples." --Ron Potter-Efron, Ph.D., Author, Letting Go of Anger and Stop the Anger Now”

"When Anger Hurts Your Relationship is useful, practical, exceptionally well organized, and insightful. I will certainly recommend this book to my angry couples." --Ron Potter-Efron, Ph.D., Author, Letting Go of Anger and Stop the Anger Now "Paleg and McKay show us that anger and conflict are inevitable in interpersonal relationships and yet when they arise, we have the opportunity to grow as individuals and as couples--deepening the bond of love with our partners. This is a must-read for all couples who want to learn how to use conflict to create intimacy." --Daniel Sonkin, Ph.D., Coauthor, Learning to Live Without Violence: A Handbook for Men

Kim Paleg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and El Sobrante, CA. She is on the faculty of John F. Kennedy University. She is a contributing author to the self-help classic When Anger Hurts and coedited the widely used professional book Focal Group Psychotherapy. She specializes in couples and family therapy and conducts workshops on parenting.

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