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Book Review – The Courage to Be Disliked (Adler’s Objectivism and the Pursuit of Happiness)

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  The Courage to Be Disliked draws on the philosophy of Alfred Adler to suggest a way to pursue happiness through purposivism, which emphasizes individual interpretation and personal growth, as opposed to the causalist views of Freud and Jung. It emphasizes that overcoming feelings of inferiority and need for approval through self-acceptance and separation of tasks, living in the moment and...