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A review by hthuwal
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
5.0
An excellent book on Adlerian psychology, which is a stark departure from Freudian psychology and its derivatives.
Unlike Freudian psychology, which focuses on past traumatic events causing behaviour, Adlerian psychology emphasises the implicit goals driving our behaviour. This powerful perspective shifts the focus to goal-oriented behaviour, giving us agency rather than attributing our actions to childhood or past events. The book effectively explains Adlerian psychology through a Socratic dialogue between a struggling youth and a philosopher/professor. You find yourself accompanying the youth on a journey—first getting agitated when the professor makes statements like “Trauma doesn’t exist,” and then slowly grasping this seemingly contrary psychology.
Unlike Freudian psychology, which focuses on past traumatic events causing behaviour, Adlerian psychology emphasises the implicit goals driving our behaviour. This powerful perspective shifts the focus to goal-oriented behaviour, giving us agency rather than attributing our actions to childhood or past events. The book effectively explains Adlerian psychology through a Socratic dialogue between a struggling youth and a philosopher/professor. You find yourself accompanying the youth on a journey—first getting agitated when the professor makes statements like “Trauma doesn’t exist,” and then slowly grasping this seemingly contrary psychology.