Anger and Relapse: Breaking the Cycle. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Fall, 1999

CLANCY, Jo. Anger and Relapse: Breaking the Cycle. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press, 1997. 212pp. $24.95 (p).

Anger and Relapse: Breaking the Cycle is written in a personal, easy-to-read style that makes readers feel like the author is with them in their struggle to escape the anger-relapse cycle. Using stories and examples from her own life, she helps readers identify the feelings, thoughts, and behavior that activate self-defeating responses, and provides step-by-step instructions for interrupting this cycle. Her sense of humor and belief in the potential of every human being clearly shines through as she invites readers to question, challenge, and change patterns of behavior that keep them from achieving happiness. This book guides readers through their pain and into the beginning stages of recovery.