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| Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence | 
| Author: Aaron T. Beck
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 91282
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0060932007
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9780060932008
ASIN: 0060932007
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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World-renowned psychiatrist Dr.Aaron T. Beck, widely hailed as the father of cognitive therapy, presents a revolutionary and eye-opening look at destructive behavoir in Prisoners of Hate. He applied his established principles on the relationships bewteen thinking processes and the emotional and behavoiral expressions to the dark side of humanity. In fascinating detail, he demonstrates that basic components of destructive behavoir-domestic abuse, bigotry, genocide, and war-share common patterns with everyday frustrations in our lives. A book that will radically alter our thinking on violence in all its forms, Prisoners of Hate, provides a solid framework for remedying these crucial problems.
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 A Solid Philosophical Underpinning for Anger Management November 9, 2008
Court-mandated anger management courses for first-time offenders deferred from imprisonment for law-breaking aggression became a necessary safety valve for overloaded court and incarceration systems in the late 1990s. It's taken a decade to move from loose notions of what to do in such group work through various suspect methodologies towards empirically verified methods.
If deferees are to move through denial to more than mere contemplation or identification and on to committment, behavioral change and relapse prevention, they will pretty likely have to confront the issues addressed herein. Any effective rage-reduction program will require psychodynamic, group dynamic, self-confrontation and emotion-recognition techniques, of course. But if, as Beck has asserted and researchers have agreed for a half century, man's beliefs, values, ideas, attitudes, evaluations, interpretations and appraisals are the drivers of emotion, a cognitive strategy for anger management is mandated.
One of the other reviewers is correct to note that other books (including those by Beck himself) address the specific methods more directly, but having read a good 20 books on CBT, REBT, ST, CAT and other cognitive therapies, I'm forced to go this far: Any therapist who conducts anger management courses without reading this book at least twice is going to be well short of his or her potential. In fact, I'd say PoH should be mandated for certification in this specialty.
Psychodynamically- and sociologically-oriented therapists will not be displeased. Beck invests plenty of time and effort in ego defenses and groupthink. He also addresses the concerns of the interpersonal school when it comes to reciprocal reactivity and parataxical integration, as well as who the triggerable select for intimate relationships and why.
From passive aggression all the way to paranoid delusion, Beck misses darned little in a treatise that ranges from intrapsychic all the way to macro-cultural. This a -great- book for the psychotherapist, sociologist, business or government leader, diplomat, and sophisticated lay reader alike.
Amazing April 24, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has given me a new perspective on my life. Being a person who has often spells of intense anger. I have managed to refrain from physical violence for a long time now. This book helped me take the "edge off". It has also helped me with border line personality disorder and depression by highlighting, what I interpreted, as causes of both. I highly recommend this book to anyone who gets angry or would just like a good book to read.
 Micro and Macro Effects of Hate January 3, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very good book with respect to personal struggles resulting from hate. The Macro issues of nation against nation, while informative, were not the reason I purchased the book.
Compelling explanation of origins of hate September 15, 2001
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
Beck credibly explains and illustrates the origins of hatred acted out by both individuals and groups. While the underlying elements show remarkable similarity, group and leader dynamics, of course, enter into hate by groups. I do agree with another reviewer who commented that Beck produces few new explanations of hatred and the resulting behaviors. The book, however, easily kept my interest and used many examples to beautifully illustrate the process that Beck explains. And he does provide some direction for helping to combat anger, hostility, and violence. Anyone interested in this book may benefit from the following notes that I made: 1. I would like to have seen some information about the duration of the benefits from the cognitive studies that Beck refers to.
2. If you're looking for credible evidence to support a belief (that I would love to have) that we're likely to find ways to significantly prevent or eradicate hate by groups of people, you won't find it in this book.
3. While Beck provides thorough explanations of anger, hostility, and violence, you'll find far more useful tools to combat these patterns in both David Burns' "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" (Burns has worked with Beck for more than 15 years) and Albert Ellis' classic "A Guide to Rational Living."
 I expected more July 6, 2001
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
What could be more interesting than a book on violence written by the world's leading psychiatrist? That's what I was thinking when I bought the book. Although Beck made some interesting points, very few were original points that I wasn't already familiar with. The book is a slow read and only moderately interesting. For a much more interesting account of violence, read James Gilligan's book VIOLENCE: REFLECTIONS ON A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC. Lee J. Markowitz, Ph.D. student in clinical psychology
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