Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

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Overview

In Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Dr. Tim Murphy and Loriann Hoff Oberlin provide an in-depth look at a topic we've all faced but haven't always recognized: Hidden anger. When people don't express their views and feel compelled to conceal their true beliefs and emotions, behaving in ways that don't match what they honestly think, there can be serious physical and psychological results for everyone involved. For the first time, Murphy and Oberlin offer a clear definition of passive-aggression and show readers not only how to end the behavior, but also how to avoid falling victim to other people's hidden anger. In clear, compassionate language, they cover everything from the childhood origins of the condition to the devastating effect it has on work and personal relationships to the latest research on the subject, and offer practical, proven strategies for the angry person as well as the individual who finds himself the target of someone else's passive-aggression.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738219189
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 10/25/2016
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 519,068
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tim Murphy, PhD, is a psychologist, retired member of Congress, and former Pennsylvania state senator. In Congress, he authored the landmark reform legislation Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, garnering praise and support from the American Psychiatric Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. The bill was signed into law in December of 2016. Murphy served on the staffs of several hospitals, as an Associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and in his own private practice. As Navy psychologist, he specialized in the treatment of post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury with wounded service members. With Loriann Oberlin, he is coauthor of The Angry Child. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Nanette.

Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC, is a clinical counselor and therapist. She is the author of ten books on psychological issues, health, relationships, parenting, and other topics; titles include The Angry Child(with Tim Murphy), Surviving Separation and Divorce, and Writing to Make Money. She lives in Maryland.

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Table of Contents

Introduction xv

Part 1 Passive-Aggression & Hidden Anger Explained 1

1 What Is Passive-Aggression Anyway? 3

2 Concealed Emotions Put People at Risk 29

3 The Roots of Negative, Toxic Unhappiness 43

Part 2 How and Why People Act as They Do 63

4 Fractured Families and Friendships 65

5 Hostile Children and Teens 87

6 Sabotaged Romance and Relationships 103

7 Underhanded Battlegrounds in Divorce 123

8 Seething Through the Work and School Day 141

Part 3 Healing from Hidden Anger 171

9 Deeply Seated Anger 173

10 People Pleasing and Tolerating Crap 197

11 Anger Antidotes 219

12 When and How to Seek Help 237

Appendix: Hidden Anger in the Clinical Setting 257

Notes 277

Recommended Resources 291

Acknowledgments 295

Index 299

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