The Courage to Be Disliked

About the book

The title The Courage to Be Disliked is widely attached to a book on Alfred Adler's psychology by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. It also appears here under Namita Gokhale, a novelist and publisher known for fiction set in India. A reader searching by title alone can easily end up with the wrong volume.

No subject description, contents or opening passage accompanies this listing, so the title, author and year are about all there is to go on. A productivity label sits oddly against Gokhale's name and is best read as a shelving decision rather than a summary of any argument.

The practical question is which book you are holding. Check the author name on the cover and the publisher's description before buying. If the volume is Gokhale's, expect her established voice and concerns. If it is the psychology title, the author attribution here is wrong.

How to read it

Treat this as an identification problem first. Confirm the author, publisher and subtitle against a bookseller's listing or the copyright page, then decide whether the subject matches what you wanted to read.

If the book proves to be Gokhale's, read it as you would her other fiction, attentive to character and setting. If it is the Adlerian title, expect a conversation between a teacher and a student, and weigh it as an argument rather than a set of instructions.

Who it suits

This suits a reader who encountered the title somewhere and wants to know what they are actually holding, and readers of Gokhale's fiction who are curious about a book listed under her name. Anyone seeking a settled summary of Adlerian psychology should look for the Kishimi and Koga book, where the authorship is unambiguous.

Reading considerations

The central limitation is attribution. A title shared by two books, with no description or contents here, leaves the subject genuinely uncertain. Verify the edition in hand before relying on this listing, and do not assume the productivity category reflects the contents. The listed year may refer to a reissue rather than a first publication.