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Introduction—A View Behind the Interview
1
Proverbs 29:22; 22:24.

 

2
Ephesians 4:26 NKJV.
Chapter 1—The Anger Bowl
1
Frank Minirth et al.,
Love Hunger
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990), p. 13.

 

2
American Psychiatric Association,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-III-R
, 3d ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1987), pp. 65-67.
3
2 Samuel 24:24.

 

4
1 Peter 5:7.
5
Revelation 8:4.
Chapter 2—Turning Up the Heat
1
Proverbs 20:2.

 

2
Ray Burwick,
The Menace Within: Hurt or Anger?
(Birmingham, AL: Ray Burwick, 1985), 18; Gary D. Chapman,
The Other Side of Love: Handling Anger in a Godly Way
(Chicago: Moody, 1999), pp. 17-18.
3
W.E. Vine,
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words
, electronic ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996).

 

4
Proverbs 22:24.
5
Matthew 26:4.

 

6
Mark 10:14.
7
Romans 1:18.

 

8
A.W. Tozer, from the
Alliance Weekly
, July 1946.
9
Acts 5:33.

 

10
Proverbs 27:4.
11
Proverbs 19:3.

 

12
Romans 8:28 NKJV.
13
Ecclesiastes 7:9.

 

14
Proverbs 29:8.
15
With special thanks to my cousin, Swann Waterhouse, for sharing information learned from working for several years in the burn unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
Chapter 3—Fuel for the Fire
1
Proverbs 23:7.

 

2
Deuteronomy 34:10.
3
Deuteronomy 34:12.

 

4
See Exodus chapter 2.
5
Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
(Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004), p. 60.

 

6
1 John 4:18.
7
Numbers 20:3-5.

 

8
See Exodus 17:1-6.
9
See Numbers 20:1-12.
Chapter 4—Ashes to Ashes
1
Proverbs 6:27.

 

2
Matthew 6:34.
3
Lisa Erickson and S. Alicia Williams-Evans, “Attitudes of Emergency Nurses Regarding Patient Assaults,”
Journal of Emergency Nursing
, vol. 26, issue 3 (June 2000), pp. 210-15.

 

4
John T. Slania, “Putting Violence Policies to Work; System Can Help Prevent Tragedies,”
Crain’s Chicago Business
, February 19, 2001.
5
Psalm 37:8-9.

 

6
Gary Bousman, “Anger: It Can Be Like Slow-acting Poison, Robbing You of Mental and Physical Health,”
Vibrant Life
, July 1, 1995.
7
Rachel Lampert, M.D., et al., “Anger Induced T-Wave Alternans Predicts Future Ventricular Arrythmias in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators,”
Journal of the American College Cardiology,
March 3, 2009, pp. 774-78.

 

8
Renee C. Lee, “Anger in Men Has Link to Strokes,”
Charleston Gazette
, March 2, 2004.
9
Daniel Goleman, “Study Documents How Anger Can Impair Heart Function,”
The New York Times
, September 2, 1992.

 

10
Goleman, “Study,”
The New York Times
.
11
Troy Goodman, “Study: Anger Triggers Heart Attacks,”
The Cincinnati Post
, May 2, 2000.

 

12
Alan Sherzagier, “Hospital Research Discovers Anger Raises Risk of Injury,”
Deseret News
(Salt Lake City), February 2, 2006 (emphasis added).
13
Nicole Walker, “Why Anger Is Bad for Your Health,”
Jet
, May 1, 2000.

 

14
James 1:19-20.
15
Joseph Carey,
Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous
System, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2006), pp. 29-30. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from
http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brainfacts/brainfacts.pdf
.

 

16
Philippians 4:6.
17
Philippians 4:7.

 

18
Matthew 11:28-29.
19
Ephesians 4:26-27.

 

20
Matthew 5:44.
21
1 John 5:3.

 

22
2 Corinthians 5:17.
23
Romans 12:18.
Chapter 5—The Fire Eaters
1
Ephesians 4:26-27.

 

2
Marcia L. Conner, James G. Clawson,
Creating a Learning Culture
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
,
p. 328
.
3
Albert Einstein, as quoted in Ronald J. Comer,
Abnormal Psychology,
5th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 2003), p. 5.

 

4
Deuteronomy 32:35.
5
Romans 12:17.

 

6
Proverbs 15:1.
7
Romans 8:33-34.
Chapter 6—The Flamethrowers
1
Much of this story is adapted from Mike Barber, “Crotchety Harry Truman Remains an Icon of the Eruption,”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter
, May 11, 2000. Accessed at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/mountsthelens/hary11.shtml
.

 

2
William Safire,
Safire’s Political Dictionary
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 348.
3
Donna duBeth, “Give ’em Hell, Harry,”
The Daily News
, March 26, 1980. Accessed at
http://www.tdn.com/helens/flash/mainpage.php?p=1113365891&w=D
.

 

4
For information on the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, see “Mt. St. Helen’s Eruption, 1980,”
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Sthelens.html
.
5
Proverbs 22:24.

 

6
ESV.
7
Frederick Buechner,
Beyond Words
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004), p. 18.

 

8
Hebrews 12:15.
9
Matthew 5:25.

 

10
Ephesians 4:26-27.
11
1 John 1:8-10 TLB.

 

12
John 8:32.
13
L. Heise, M. Ellsberg, and M. Gottemoeller, “Ending Violence Against Women,”
Population Reports
, Series L, no. 11 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, December 1999), p. 1.

 

14
The Commonwealth Fund,
Health Concerns Across a Woman’s Lifespan
(Rochester, NY: Louis Harris and Associates, May 1999), p. 27.
15
E. Cohen and J. Knitzer, “Children Living with Domestic Violence,” a report prepared for “Early Childhood, Domestic Violence, and Poverty: Taking the Next Steps to Help Young Children and Their Families,” May 2002, as cited in
National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women,
“Violence Against Women Act 2005, Title IV-Prevention.”
16
2 Corinthians 7:10-11.
17
James 5:16.
Chapter 7—Blast from the Past
1
Gary Chapman,
Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way
(Chicago, IL: Northfield Publishing, 2007), p. 99.

 

2
2 Corinthians 5:17.
3
For the hierarchy of needs, see Abraham Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation,”
Psychological Review,
vol. 50 (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, July 1943), pp. 370-96.
Chapter 8—Too Hot to Handle
1
Matthew 7:12.

 

2
William Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet
, Act 5, Scene 3.
3
Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King,
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion: Quotations from the Speeches, Essays, and Books of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(New York: Macmillan, 1993), p. 56.

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