Anger & Irritability · Hypnosis session
Anger Management: One Question Comes Before Everything Else on This Page
You are probably reading this a few hours after something you can’t take back. Before anything here is for sale, there is a question that decides whether I should be selling it to you at all. Everything with evidence behind it on this page is free, and the recording is not the evidence.
Is anyone in your house frightened of you?Not annoyed. Not sick of the arguments. Scared. Do they change what they say, where they go, or who they see, to keep you calm?
If the answer is yes, or if you are not sure it is no, this recording is the wrong thing and I am not going to sell it to you. Anger and family violence are not the same problem. The Victorian Government puts it plainly: violence and abuse is not caused by anger, but by the desire to hurt or dominate others.
- Men’s Referral Service — 1300 766 491 24/7, free from all phones, confidential, and you can stay anonymous. The national service for men who use violence and want to change, and the way into a Men’s Behaviour Change Program.
- MensLine Australia — 1300 78 99 78 24/7, free. It runs a free two-month programme by phone for men concerned their thoughts or behaviour may escalate to violence.
- 1800RESPECT — 1800 737 732, or text 0458 737 732 24/7, free from a landline, a payphone and most mobiles. If you are the one who is frightened, start here.
- 13YARN — 13 92 76 24/7, free and confidential, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- In immediate danger, call 000.
No box to tick here, and nothing to confirm. A tick gives you a ritual and the person at home nothing.
“This is for someone reading a few hours after something they can’t take back. It will not make anybody at home safe, and there has never been a trial of hypnosis for anger. Ninety days to change your mind, and nothing to justify.”
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That is not me hedging. Two Australian governments have ruled that anger management is not a family violence intervention: the ACT standards call behaviour change programs “distinct in their aims and approach from anger management programs”, and the NSW standards put “anger management as an issue in isolation” out of scope. If a twenty-week group holds that line, a recording does.
Is any of this the week you have just had?
- Nothing to shouting in four seconds, over something small
- Downstairs at one in the morning, going back over it
- An apology drafted three times in your head, never out loud
- Level all day at work, nothing like it in your kitchen
- Somebody in the passenger seat saying your name a certain way
Two of those and keep reading. None, and another session fits better.
Has hypnosis ever been tested on anger?
No. Not once, and not weakly: no randomised trial, no systematic review and no meta-analysis of hypnosis for anger, irritability or aggression anywhere. The hole shows best on the biggest map of the field. Rosendahl and colleagues published an umbrella review in Frontiers in Psychology in 2024 covering 49 meta-analyses of hypnosis. Search it for “anger”, “aggression” or “emotion regulation”. Zero occurrences of any of them.
What does have evidence is psychological treatment delivered by a person. Saini’s 2009 paper, A meta-analysis of the psychological treatment of anger, pooled 96 studies and 139 effect sizes and found an overall weighted effect of 0.76, confidence interval 0.67 to 0.85. Best-evidenced rather than recommended: there is no Australian guideline for anger, because it is not a standalone diagnosis. Saini’s own limits: most studies ran in the United States, a third used students, and nobody has shown it in a man whose partner is scared of him.
Fourteen years of practice has given me a view of what this work does in a room. That is experience, not evidence, and I am not dressing one up as the other.
Then why does every other page carry a number?
Because it sells and nobody audits it. On 5 September 2026 I read nine Australian anger management and hypnotherapy provider pages. Four published or implied a claim about how well the work succeeds, three as a bare figure: “85% success rate”, 80%, 76%. None traces to a study of anger, because there isn’t one.
One went further. It carried four figures against a reference list formatted like an academic paper, and its 82% anger claim is attributed to Alladin and Alibhai, 2007 — a study of depression. Two other citations could not be located. A fabricated evidence base wearing a reference list.
What was missing matters more. Eight of the nine did not mention family violence at all, and not one referred a reader to 1800RESPECT, MensLine, the Men’s Referral Service or 13YARN. The one that raised domestic violence did it as a client exclusion, no number and no referral, leaving that reader a paragraph saying he is the wrong customer. One mentioned a GP, in a footer disclaimer.
I am naming none of them; a hit list is marketing pointed the other way.
Does it help to let it out?
Almost everything you have been told points the wrong way. Hit something, shout it out, run it off: sold as release, and the research says the opposite. Bushman’s 2002 experiment angered 600 people, then split them three ways: hit a punching bag while thinking about whoever angered you, hit it thinking about fitness, or sit quietly for two minutes.
Afterwards the ruminating group scored highest for anger at 29.78, the distraction group 27.32, and the ones who did nothing were calmest at 26.25. Venting, he wrote, is like using gasoline to put out a fire: it only feeds the flame.
That is one laboratory. The 2024 meta-analysis behind it is not. Kjærvik and Bushman pooled 154 studies, 184 samples and 10,189 participants, sorting every activity by what it does to arousal. Activities that lower arousal reduced anger and aggression, g = −0.63. Activities that raise it did nothing measurable, g = −0.02. Breathing, relaxation, mindfulness and taking a time-out sit in the first group. Jogging was the one most likely to make anger worse.
That literature leans on short laboratory tasks and anger induced on purpose, which is not a Tuesday night. And its digital-delivery finding is about breathing and relaxation, not hypnosis, so I am not sliding one into the other.
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What can you do tonight that costs nothing?
Five things, and the first is the least impressive and the best supported. None costs anything, and none is the thing I am selling. All five lower arousal rather than raise it, which is the distinction that review turned on.
- Sit down and do nothing for two minutes
Not a metaphor. Sit, hands still, phone face down, and stop rehearsing what you should have said. In Bushman’s experiment the people who did this came out calmer than either group who acted on it. Two minutes by the clock; your own sense of it will be wrong.
- Make the out-breath longer than the in-breath
Three counts in through the nose, six out through pursed lips. Laborde’s 2022 review of 223 studies found slow breathing raises vagally-mediated heart rate variability, and calls it low-tech and low-cost. That is a heart result, not an anger result. It earns its place as an arousal-lowering activity, and there is no pooled number for breathing and anger.
- Agree the time-out before you ever need it
Four conditions, worth nothing without all four. Agreed in advance, while you are both calm. The angry person is the one who leaves, never the other one. You say when you are coming back, and come back then. And it never ends a conversation the other person wants to have.
Wistow, Kelly and Westmarland interviewed 44 men on perpetrator programmes and 27 partners, and found time-out turned into its opposite: the woman made to leave, the man going back upstairs for more words, “this is what I’ve been taught” used to close her down.
- Run it from their side, not “it doesn’t matter”
Webb, Miles and Sheeran pooled 306 experimental comparisons of emotion regulation. Talking yourself round came out at d = 0.36; the strongest move inside it was perspective-taking, d = 0.45. So write two lines, actually write them, describing last night from the other side of the table. Not the same as telling yourself it was nothing, and laboratory work on emotion in general rather than clinical anger.
- Protect the two nights before anything difficult
Krizan and Hisler randomised 142 people to keep their usual sleep or cut it back over two nights. Restricting sleep, in their words, universally intensified anger. One study, two nights, and still the cheapest lever here.
Could this be something other than anger?
Often, and worth ruling out first. healthdirect lists irritability as a symptom of sleep problems, thyroid problems, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, premenstrual syndrome, withdrawal from caffeine, cannabis or tobacco, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and dementia, plus hunger and fatigue.
One deserves its own sentence. In men, depression often does not look like sadness — healthdirect’s page on depression in men says it can show up as irritable, angry or frustrated. Plenty work on a temper for a year while the thing underneath goes unnamed.
If the temper is new, or newly worse, that is an appointmenthealthdirect’s advice is one sentence: “If you feel unusually irritable or are constantly irritable or on edge, it is important to talk to your doctor.” Take what you drink, anything you have started or stopped taking, and any knock to the head.
What is in the Anger Management session?
A single guided session of twenty-four and a half minutes, narrated by Roger Elliott, built for repeated listening rather than one attentive go. What it works on is the arousal you carry into an evening, and the speed of the jump to shouting.
No free preview. Voice is the commonest reason a recording does nothing for someone, which leaves the refund window as the safety net.
Anger Management
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- For someone who has answered the question at the top honestly
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What would the alternatives cost you in Australia?
Published prices, September 2026. A four-hour online anger management group course: $300. Four hours of anger counselling by phone or video: $396. Hypnotherapy single sessions advertised at $245, $275 and $300, with no Medicare rebate for hypnotherapy in Australia. A GP is the door to Better Access, which covers a maximum of 10 individual and 10 group allied mental health services a calendar year.
Every number in the box at the top of this page is zero.
Figures the publisher reports about itself: trading since 1998, and 5,099 purchases of this session, the most bought of the six anger titles here.
Self-reported, and not an outcome. A count tells you what people bought, not what happened next.
Who is this session wrong for?
The first group is why that question sits at the top rather than down here. If somebody at home is frightened of you, this is not a small step in the right direction. It is a delay.
- Anyone in your house is frightened of you, or you are not sure they aren’t.
- You have hit, thrown something, blocked a doorway or broken something to make a point.
- You want something to show somebody as proof you are working on it.
- The temper is new, or arrived with headaches, memory trouble or a head injury.
- You are drinking daily, or the worst of it lands a few hours after a drink.
- You have had thoughts of harming yourself, or somebody else.
Any of those and what you want is a person: a GP, a psychologist, or the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.
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Common questions about anger management
Does hypnosis work for anger?
It has never been tested. There is no randomised trial, systematic review or meta-analysis of hypnosis for anger, irritability or aggression. A 2024 umbrella review of 49 hypnosis meta-analyses does not contain the word anger anywhere. Cochrane has hypnotherapy reviews for smoking and IBS, none for anger.
Is anger management the same as a men’s behaviour change program?
No, and two Australian governments have said so in writing. The ACT standards call behaviour change programs distinct in their aims and approach from anger management programs, and the NSW standards put anger management in isolation out of scope. The way in is the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.
Does it help to let anger out?
The research says the opposite. In an experiment with 600 people, those who hit a punching bag while thinking about whoever angered them ended up angrier than those told to sit quietly for two minutes. A 2024 meta-analysis of 10,189 people found only arousal-lowering activities reduced anger.
What has the best evidence for anger?
Psychological treatment delivered by a person. A 2009 meta-analysis of the psychological treatment of anger pooled 96 studies and 139 effect sizes and found an overall weighted effect of 0.76. Its authors note most studies ran in the United States and a third used students. No Australian guideline exists.
What does anger help cost in Australia?
Published 2026 prices include $300 for a four-hour online group course and $396 for four hours of counselling by phone or video. Hypnotherapy sessions are advertised at $245, $275 and $300, with no Medicare rebate. A GP can start a mental health plan.
What if the session does nothing for me?
You email the publisher your order number inside 90 days and they refund you in full, without asking why. One refund per customer. Nobody can tell in advance whether a particular voice reaches a particular person, and with no preview that window is the only test there is.
Other sessions that may fit you better
- Stop Being IrritableA low hum most days, not a few big ones
- Stop ArguingThe same argument, same person, on a loop
- Overcome Road RageAt the wheel and nowhere else. Shortest here at 17:17, and the only Mark Tyrrell session
The anger and irritability guide sorts them by situation, not label.
Whatever you decide about the twenty-seven dollars, do the two minutes tonight and agree the time-out rule while you are calm.
Ernest McLeod — clinical hypnotherapist. An Adelaide practice, seeing clients across Australia by video. Fourteen years in practice.
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This is a self-help audio session, not medical treatment, a diagnosis, or a substitute for professional care. It is not a family violence intervention: if anyone is frightened of you, ring the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491, and in immediate danger ring 000. Anger that is new or worsening needs a doctor. Never listen at the wheel. If you have epilepsy, check first.