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One of the nice things about a book such as Road Rage: Assessment and Treatment of the Angry, Aggressive Driver is that it focuses on something about which almost every American adult has some familiarity. When the subject is road rage, anyone who drives or rides in a vehicle on today’s roadways has either experienced the explosive negative reaction we call road rage or, in some unfortunate cases, been targeted by a driver who is experiencing it. This is a book about the clinical assessment and treatment of the driver who regularly experiences extreme anger and explosive outbursts while driving. This timely, well-written book focuses on people for whom angry driving is “pathological. ” This word is placed in quotation marks here because it is important to realize (as the book’s authors note) that road rage is not currently recognized by the psychiatric community as a mental disorder. However, it is hard not to think of it as such, given the authors ’ consideration and discussion of it from a clinical perspective. As a result of their discussion, it s hard not to think of the angry driver who experiences road rage as someone who is mentally unstable, has permanently “lost it,” and is “crazy.” According to the book’s authors, who are clinical psychologists, road rage can be instigated by the actual behaviors of other drivers or by a driver’s perception of other drivers. This means that whereas in some cases another driver may actually be responsible for the angry driver’s rage (e.g., changed lanes without signaling), in other cases, it is becaus