The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi

Adlerian psychology presented as a dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. The argument is that most of what we call psychological pain is actually the cost of needing other people's approval. The form is a little forced in places. The underlying frame is useful. Many of the things we treat as constraints are choices about whose approval we want.