Overcoming passive-aggression: how to stop hidden anger from spoiling your relationships, career and happiness

Part I: What is passive-aggression and why is it so bad?

Passive-aggression and hidden anger

Understanding the problems associated with concealed emotions

The childhood roots of passive-aggression. Part II: Passive-aggression in different settings. Coping with hidden anger at work and school

Recognizing hidden anger in couples and marriage

Dealing with hidden anger in families

Facing hidden anger in fractured relationships. Part III: Solving the hidden anger problem. Understanding anger as a deeper disorder

Ending all enabling

Rewriting your own anger script. Appendix: Research regarding passive-aggression.

Part 1: Passive-aggression & hidden anger explained. What is passive-aggression anyway? ; Concealed emotions put people at risk ; The roots of negative, toxic unhappiness

Part 2: How and why people act as they do. Fractured families and friendships ; Hostile children and teens ; Sabotaged romance and relationships ; Underhanded battlegrounds in divorce ; Seething through the work and school day

Part 3: Healing from hidden anger. Deeply seated anger ; People pleasing and tolerating crap ; Anger antidotes ; When and how to seek help

Appendix: Hidden anger in the clinical setting.