Outsmarting Anger: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion

Surefire strategies for transforming anger in yourself and others In this must-read resource, Dr. Joseph Shrand offers seven innovative yet remarkably uncomplicated strategies to help turn powerful anger impulses into positive, success-oriented actions. These brain-based techniques teach you how to recognize the many forms of anger we all experience, and how to tap into your brain's very own anger absorption zone the prefrontal cortex. Dr. Shrand also explores the ways these techniques can be used to harness the anger of others. When we learn to recognize and defuse the anger response of any individual, we improve our chances for success in every aspect of life.

• Explains how the power of anger can be turned into much more productive behaviors
• Outlines 7 simple strategies for outsmarting the lizard brain and the primitive limbic system
• Published in partnership with Harvard Health publications, a division of Harvard Medical School

Outsmarting Anger helps you manage and decrease not only your own anger, but the anger of people around you so everyone can be more successful.

About the Authors

Joseph Shrand, MD, is an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the Medical Director of CASTLE (Clean and Sober Teens Living Empowered), a brand new intervention unit for at-risk teens which is part of the highly respected High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, MA. Dr. Shrand is triple Board certified in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and a diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.

Currently he also teaches psychiatry residents-in-training as a member of the Brockton VA staff. He is also the Medical Director of Road to Responsibility, a community based program that tends to adults with significant developmental disability and serves on various Boards involved in national mental health issues as well as global fair-trade concerns.

He helped to design the Independence Academy, the first sober high school on the South Shore of Massachusetts, and currently sits on the Steering Committee. Dr. Shrand routinely gives lectures on Theory of Mind and its application to re-conceptualize the behaviors of patients.

Among colleagues and staff, he is affectionately called "Doctor Joe," as he was "Joe" in the original children's cast of the PBS series ZOOM.

Leigh Devine, MS, is a journalist and award-winning television producer specializing in health education. She is the coauthor, with Dr. Shrand, of Manage Your Stress. Her articles have appeared in Emmy, Television Week, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. She is also a former health producer and reporter for Medical News Network and for Lifetime Medical Television’s This Week in the New England Journal of Medicine.