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Criminologist Raymond Chip Tafrate is Professor of Psychology at Connecticut State University and author of Understanding Anger Disorders. He has devised successful new strategies for anger management, tailored to the needs of different groups of patients. He says that someone compelled to have anger management therapy by the criminal justice system is unlikely to respond well to a treatment which works for people who come to the sessions voluntarily. 

Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian specialising in the history of emotions at Queen Mary University of London and author of The Book of Human Emotions. She argues that what seems like a modern debate about whether it’s better to suppress or vent one’s anger, has actually much older roots. For instance, the thirteenth-century physician and alchemist Roger Bacon suggested that getting frequently infuriated could slow the aging process.

Leading American neurobiologist R. Douglas Fields explains the science behind the activation of the ‘threat response’ centre in our brain which often leads to violent outbursts of anger. He describes the nine neural circuits involved in making us feel angry and he also shows how we can protect both ourselves and other people from rage. His latest book is Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain.