Vinegar into Honey

Our desires and our fears are woven into a tangled web of conflicts. We want both to eat dessert and to be thin. We want money but dont want to work. Anything that threatens our sense of self and its striving for happiness is perceived as a threat to our very livesthe response to which is defensiveness anger aggression and violence.Vinegar into Honey proposes a new paradigm for understanding the relationship between stress anxiety anger and depression. Leifer provides detailed instructions for working with anger and other painful emotions. The process of transforming suffering into equanimity and compassion is central in Buddhist psychology and practice. Each of the steps in Vinegar into Honey reflects views and methods drawn from Buddhist tradition. Leifers work holds promise for psychotherapists and their patients individuals seeking to understand and work with their anger and people interested in the interface of Buddhism andpsychotherapy.