Watch That Temper! Americans Turn to Pros to Curb Anger

George Anderson, of Anderson Anger Management Training, in Los Angeles, California. In the City of Angels, where residents rage at the time wasted in traffic jams and homicide rates are among the highest nationwide, anger therapy is by no means limited to the rich and famous. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

Bernard Minor spent 26 years behind bars for murdering a drug dealer who owed him $400. Now, the ex-con spends his days teaching others to keep their rage in check, one of the swelling ranks of America’s anger therapists.

“I was a very angry person,” the 58-year-old told AFP. “I'd been living a violent life. Living in the streets since I was 11 years old. Now I want to help people.”

Minor specialises in tackling domestic abuse – working with “batterers”, in his own words – in Los Angeles, a city seen by many as a hotbed of short-fused behaviour and where the rage management industry is booming.

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