Good Anger: Why We Shouldn't Fear Our Rage: A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY THE INDEPENDENT
Autor Sam Parkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2026
'A marvellous book ... enhances our understanding of ourselves and others' IRVINE WELSH
'Enlightening' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'If you want to figure anger out - then this is for you' - Financial Times
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DISCOVER HOW A MISUNDERSTOOD EMOTION CAN OFFER YOU CLARITY, PURPOSE AND STRENGTH
Feeling ashamed or afraid of anger is a major factor in why many of us suffer with anxiety and depression. When we repress our rage, it harms our health and quietly sabotages our most important relationships.
Yet when we learn to listen to it properly and act on it wisely, anger becomes a source of remarkable insight, energy and purpose - an emotion that not only protects us but helps improve all areas of our lives, from love to creativity to professional success.
In Good Anger, journalist Sam Parker traces his own journey with our most misunderstood emotion, explores how it became a cultural taboo, and argues why anger should be the next frontier of the mental health movement.
Drawing on lessons from psychology, philosophy and science, he proposes a radical new path for people pleasers and conflict avoiders everywhere.
Provocative, insightful and timely, this book will help you understand your own struggle with anger - and transform your relationship to it completely.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399417891
ISBN-10: 1399417894
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399417894
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Tree
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Foreword
1. The other anger problem
2. Bad anger: a history
3. Anger and the body
4. Who is allowed to be angry
5. The anger advantage at work
6. Anger online
7. Anger in love
8. Good anger
9. The angry life
Afterword
References
Acknowledgements
Index
1. The other anger problem
2. Bad anger: a history
3. Anger and the body
4. Who is allowed to be angry
5. The anger advantage at work
6. Anger online
7. Anger in love
8. Good anger
9. The angry life
Afterword
References
Acknowledgements
Index
Recenzii
There's a lot in life to be angry about, and we shouldn't be repressing that. The distinction between bad anger and good anger is a crucial one. A marvellous book which enhances our understanding of ourselves and others.
Sam Parker's examination of anger is thrillingly incendiary. I haven't been able to think about anger in the same way since.
Compulsory reading . Grounded in wisdom from across time and culture, Parker offers us a variety of enlightening perspectives on this complicated subject. In today's maddening world dismissing anger simply isn't an option, we have to learn to live better with it.
Powerful and engaging ... Parker's fluent book, which draws on dozens of stimulating examples - from Aristotle to Tony Soprano - has wisdom to offer about tackling unhappiness ... Whatever your own background or temperament, there is much to digest and utilise in this moving story of recovery and renewal ... Good Anger is a potent defence of a vilified emotion - and a compelling invitation to sit with it a little longer.
A delightful dive into our most maligned emotion. If you feel angry - and the whole world seems to be right now - this book will help you understand, and perhaps feel better about it.
This book is wise in the way a good therapist or a clever friend is wise - it leads us gently towards our greatest fears and reveals that the thing we're taught to suppress might be the key to making our lives infinitely better. Far from a book for angry people, it's a book for all of us who smugly shrug and say 'oh I never get angry'. It is quietly, gently revolutionary and it will make you feel both naked and relieved that you're not the only one struggling. Crucially, it will give you the confidence to turn anger to your advantage. It is one of those books you'll want to buy for the people closest to you to let them in on the secret. Because this book isn't just about anger, it is, above all, about hope.
A great book ... If you want to "figure anger out" - then this book is for you.
An enlightening read ... Parker is especially insightful on female anger.
A generous and rigorous exploration of an emotion we could all do with understanding better.
I think I may have a new hero. For Sam Parker has written a book, and that book is called Good Anger and the title alone has been enough to blow my tiny mind. The idea that anger might be allowable, that it might be capable of being channelled as a force for good is the most profound, absurd, frightening, liberating one I have ever heard.
Sam Parker is my new man, my pole star, my homie, my ride-or-die.
A Must-Read Book
A thoroughly reported, groundbreakingly insightful personal journey through the dark side of anger and into the light.
A clarifying and subversive look at the history of one of the most natural human emotions, Good Anger travels through ancient philosophy, history and socio-politics in order to reframe the negative connotations of rage.
Anger is not the problem, it's how you express it. Expressing it properly is hugely beneficial. The how is a little harder, but this is an eloquent explanation of how you can do just that.
A best book of 2025 so far ... In this thoughtful and considered account, Parker looks at the history of our understanding of anger and posits a theory that by channelling it in the right ways it can be a force of empowerment and, ultimately, for good.
Parker argues that anger can be a vital force for personal growth, happiness and even professional success. The book is part memoir, part manifesto - and entirely a product of its cultural moment: an era when we've learned to hashtag our sadness and destigmatise our anxiety, but still treat anger like a contagious rash.
GLAMOUR Best New Books of June 2025
Parker's message is clear. Let anger be. Channel it. Don't let it bottle up. Everyone-no matter their age, background, gender or race-should have equal anger opportunities.
GQ The Best Books of 2025
A perceptive, thoughtful book
Sam Parker's examination of anger is thrillingly incendiary. I haven't been able to think about anger in the same way since.
Compulsory reading . Grounded in wisdom from across time and culture, Parker offers us a variety of enlightening perspectives on this complicated subject. In today's maddening world dismissing anger simply isn't an option, we have to learn to live better with it.
Powerful and engaging ... Parker's fluent book, which draws on dozens of stimulating examples - from Aristotle to Tony Soprano - has wisdom to offer about tackling unhappiness ... Whatever your own background or temperament, there is much to digest and utilise in this moving story of recovery and renewal ... Good Anger is a potent defence of a vilified emotion - and a compelling invitation to sit with it a little longer.
A delightful dive into our most maligned emotion. If you feel angry - and the whole world seems to be right now - this book will help you understand, and perhaps feel better about it.
This book is wise in the way a good therapist or a clever friend is wise - it leads us gently towards our greatest fears and reveals that the thing we're taught to suppress might be the key to making our lives infinitely better. Far from a book for angry people, it's a book for all of us who smugly shrug and say 'oh I never get angry'. It is quietly, gently revolutionary and it will make you feel both naked and relieved that you're not the only one struggling. Crucially, it will give you the confidence to turn anger to your advantage. It is one of those books you'll want to buy for the people closest to you to let them in on the secret. Because this book isn't just about anger, it is, above all, about hope.
A great book ... If you want to "figure anger out" - then this book is for you.
An enlightening read ... Parker is especially insightful on female anger.
A generous and rigorous exploration of an emotion we could all do with understanding better.
I think I may have a new hero. For Sam Parker has written a book, and that book is called Good Anger and the title alone has been enough to blow my tiny mind. The idea that anger might be allowable, that it might be capable of being channelled as a force for good is the most profound, absurd, frightening, liberating one I have ever heard.
Sam Parker is my new man, my pole star, my homie, my ride-or-die.
A Must-Read Book
A thoroughly reported, groundbreakingly insightful personal journey through the dark side of anger and into the light.
A clarifying and subversive look at the history of one of the most natural human emotions, Good Anger travels through ancient philosophy, history and socio-politics in order to reframe the negative connotations of rage.
Anger is not the problem, it's how you express it. Expressing it properly is hugely beneficial. The how is a little harder, but this is an eloquent explanation of how you can do just that.
A best book of 2025 so far ... In this thoughtful and considered account, Parker looks at the history of our understanding of anger and posits a theory that by channelling it in the right ways it can be a force of empowerment and, ultimately, for good.
Parker argues that anger can be a vital force for personal growth, happiness and even professional success. The book is part memoir, part manifesto - and entirely a product of its cultural moment: an era when we've learned to hashtag our sadness and destigmatise our anxiety, but still treat anger like a contagious rash.
GLAMOUR Best New Books of June 2025
Parker's message is clear. Let anger be. Channel it. Don't let it bottle up. Everyone-no matter their age, background, gender or race-should have equal anger opportunities.
GQ The Best Books of 2025
A perceptive, thoughtful book