Aging angry : making peace with rage /
"Never before in the history of humanity have so many people lived to be so very old. Throughout our past, a few individuals might have made it to old age but "mass aging" is a new concept for the human species"--
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Aging Angry
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Who's Angry Now?
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Memory
- 1. Aging While Angry
- What's Anger?
- Simple Truths versus Scientific Proofs
- Death by a Thousand Cuts
- They're Just Going to Die Anyway
- Ageism at Work
- Family Matters
- Mad as Hell
- Don't Put a Lid on It
- Anger Unbound
- 2. Speaking of Anger
- Telling It Slant
- I Just Exploded
- Disgusting Idioms
- Metaphors from Other Lands
- Hold Your Tongue
- Cantankerous, Crotchety, and Grumpy
- 3. Anger Through the Ages
- Contemplating Aristotle
- If a Thing Is Bad
- Vengeance Is Mine
- Was Jesus Angry?
- Is Anger a Sin?
- My Nightmare
- 4. Angry Bodies
- Inside the Lizard Brain
- The Survival Circuit
- Late Life Variability
- Bad for Us or Just Plain Bad?
- Context Matters
- 5. Women Cry / Men Rage
- Anger Makes You Ugly
- Real Men Don't
- I Need Another Happy Pill
- A Lot to Be Angry About
- Are Men Really Angrier?
- A Gender Paradox
- 6. Race and Anger in Later Life
- Angry Times in American Streets
- Of Life and Time
- The Tiresomeness of It All
- A Legacy for the Grandchildren
- Anger Builds Character
- 7. Elders on Social Media
- The Rage Contagion
- Cyberspace for Rants
- A Duty to Die?
- Seniors Trapped in YouTube
- Meanwhile, Back in the U.S.A.
- The Anger Project Online
- 8. Lessons on Anger and Love
- Homes Full of Anger
- A Panoply of Family Anger
- The Lovers' Quarrel
- The Sulk
- Serpents' Teeth
- Kick the Dog Syndrome
- 9. Aging, Angry, and Armed to the Teeth
- A Very Big Year
- Yeah, It Fits
- War on the Government
- People Talking Down to Me
- A Regular Old Neighbor
- Santa's Coming
- A Family Annihilator
- What Was Wrong with This Man?
- That Nagging Sense of Unfairness
- Rage-onomics
- Not Again.
- Beyond Disgruntled
- 10. Taming the Rage
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder
- Helping People Manage Anger
- Stop Dictating to Us
- Destroy That Monster
- Sometimes Therapy Works
- Time's Passage
- 11. Embracing the Anger
- Chemical Restraint
- A Dose of Hope
- American Cool
- A Word from the Wise
- Turning toward Anger
- 12. Changing the World
- Anger Constrained?
- Great Old Broads and Raging Grannies
- Choosing Anger
- Striking a Light
- Conclusion: The Eye of the Heart
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: The Anger Project
- Appendix 2: The Interview Protocol
- Appendix 3: Internet Survey Instrument
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.