Amanda Barusch

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Amanda Barusch

Aging Angry

Preface: Who’s Angry Now?

Chapter 1 Aging While Angry

  • What’s Anger?

  • Simple Truths vs. 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

Chapter 2 Speaking of Anger

  • Telling It Slant

  • I Just Exploded

  • Disgusting Idioms

  • Metaphors from Other Lands

  • Hold Your Tongue

  • Cantankerous, Crotchety, and Grumpy

Chapter 3 Anger through the Ages

  • Contemplating Aristotle

  • If a Thing Is Bad

  • Vengeance Is Mine

  • Was Jesus Angry?

  • Is Anger a Sin?

  • My Nightmare

Chapter 4 Angry Bodies

  • Inside the Lizard Brain

  • The Survival Circuit

  • Late Life Variability

  • Bad for Us or Just Plain Bad?

  • Context Matters

Chapter 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 More Angry?

  • A Gender Paradox

Chapter 6 Race & 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

Chapter 7 Elders on Social Media

  • The Rage Contagion

  • Cyber Space for Rants

  • A Duty to Die?

  • Seniors Trapped in YouTube

  • Meanwhile, Back in the U.S.A.

  • The Anger Project Online

Chapter 8 Lessons on Anger & Love

  • Homes Full of Anger

  • A Panoply of Family Anger

  • The Lover’s Quarrel

  • The Sulk

  • Serpents’ Teeth

  • Kick the Dog Syndrome

Chapter 9 Aging, Angry, and Armed to the Teeth

  • A Very Big Year

  • Yeah, It Fits

  • What Was Wrong with This Man?

  • That Nagging Sense of Unfairness

  • Rageonomics

  • Not Again

  • Beyond Disgruntled

Chapter 10 Taming the Rage

  • Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)

  • Helping People Manage Anger

  • Stop Dictating to Us

  • Destroy That Monster

  • Sometimes Therapy Works

  • Time’s Passage

Chapter 11 Embracing the Anger

  • Chemical Restraint

  • A Dose of Hope

  • American Cool

  • A Word from the Wise

  • Turning towards Anger

Chapter 12 Changing the World

  • Anger Constrained?

  • Great Old Broads and Raging Grannies

  • Choosing Anger

  • Striking a Light

  • Conclusion: The Eye of the Heart

Bibliography

Appendices

  • Appendix 1 The Anger Project

  • Appendix 2 The Interview Protocol

  • Appendix 3 The Internet Survey