Written as a guide for all women, regardless of age, background or life experience showing how they can turn their anger into a constructive force for changing their lives. The author, a psychotherapist, draws on a decade of clinical investigatiion as well as recent findings in psychoanalytic theory, to show how and why anger so often prolongs rather than challenges existing harmful dynamics in relationships. She provides specific strategies for making meaningful and lasting changes in important relationships with friends, family and lovers.