I cannot for the life of me remember where I had heard The Courage to be Disliked was an interesting read. I gave it a shot, but I was completely turned off by the hokey and condescending delivery system of this philosophical thesis as a conversation between a philosophy teacher and young skeptic. (See also: silly parables like The Alchemist.) There are some aspects of I agree with regarding this repackaged take on Western Adlerian philosophy, but mostly it feels like victim blaming and wildly outdated regarding current psychology and science on trauma.