In Courage to be Happy, we follow a Socratic dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. The philosopher believes that the key to a life of Hari and fulfilment is offered to us by the theories of Alfred Adler, a forgotten giant of 19th century psychology who has long been overshadowed by his two contemporaries, Freud and Jung. The young man is full of doubt that life can be genuinely improved by simply changing his thinking. Patiently, the philosopher explains the essence of Adler’s ‘psychology of courage’, taking the young man through the mental steps necessary to achieve it, and demonstrating to the young man, and to us, the changes this psychology will bring to the way we live our lives.
