Anger: Escape from the Neurotic Paradox

How to short-circuit anger in the heat of the moment

In the 1960s, the psychologist O. Hobart Mowrer coined a famous term for the way in which we tend to persist in bad habits, despite the long-term suffering they cause us. He called it the Neurotic Paradox. Theoretically, we should learn from the consequences of our actions, and change our habits, but for some reason we do not. Many great thinkers hav…