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Bernard Golden, Ph.D.

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Bernard Golden, Ph.D., the founder of Anger Management Education in Chicago, has been a practicing psychologist for almost 40 years. He has clinical experience in community mental health centers, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, private practice groups, and individual practice. He specializes in anger management issues, utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness techniques, and practices in compassion and self-compassion. He is also the author of Overcoming Destructive Anger: Strategies That Work; Unlock Your Creative Genius; and Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage their Anger.

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Recent Posts
Fearlessness and Authenticity
Understand how fearless authenticity leads to a deeper connection with others and with ourselves and offers us the freedom to engage in the creative process.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Anger
While anger is quite often associated with PTSD, there are many factors that contribute to this association. As such, effective treatment depends on identifying these factors.
Is Anger Masking Your Grieving?
Many of us find it too challenging to face the intense emotional pain associated with grief. With or without full awareness, attending to anger may help us avoid it.
Authoritarian Parenting: Its Impact, Causes, and Indications

Authoritarian parenting is highly associated with a child's negative emotions and externalization. However, parents can learn how to parent in more constructive ways.

Authoritarian parenting is highly associated with a child's negative emotions and externalization. However, parents can learn how to parent in more constructive ways.

The Psychology Behind What Makes Authoritarianism Appealing

What is it that makes a person want to have fewer freedoms, less choice, and pay tribute to conformity above individuality? The answer to this question is rooted in our psychology.

What is it that makes a person want to have fewer freedoms, less choice, and pay tribute to conformity above individuality? The answer to this question is rooted in our psychology.

Seeking Revenge: Its Causes, Impact, and Challenge

While seeking revenge may be a knee-jerk reaction to an offense, it's helpful to pause to evaluate its real impact and how to move past it.

While seeking revenge may be a knee-jerk reaction to an offense, it's helpful to pause to evaluate its real impact and how to move past it.

Anger Is a Potential Postpartum Reaction

New mothers need to know that anger can be a postpartum reaction. This post offers an understanding of postpartum anger—its features, causes, and coping strategies.

New mothers need to know that anger can be a postpartum reaction. This post offers an understanding of postpartum anger—its features, causes, and coping strategies.

Exploring feelings
10 Ways to Increase Your Emotional Awareness

Emotional awareness is essential for healthy relationships with others and ourselves. There are many ways to cultivate such awareness, all of which require self-reflection.

Emotional awareness is essential for healthy relationships with others and ourselves. There are many ways to cultivate such awareness, all of which require self-reflection.

The Need for Social-Emotional Skills in Elementary School

Teaching children social-emotional skills helps provide them a sense of safety, connection, and respect essential for optimal learning.

Teaching children social-emotional skills helps provide them a sense of safety, connection, and respect essential for optimal learning.