Ichiro Kishimi
Philosopher and Adlerian psychologist
Ichiro Kishimi is a Japanese philosopher and psychologist who specializes in ancient Western philosophy and Adlerian psychology. He co-wrote The Courage to Be Disliked.
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Japanese Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
About Ichiro Kishimi
Ichiro Kishimi was born in 1956 and studied at Kyoto University, where he earned a master's degree in philosophy. He left the doctoral program in 1987 to care for his mother. Among other places, he has taught at Kyoto University of Education, Konan University and Nara Women's University. He also works as a translator from English and German. The Courage to Be Disliked, which he wrote with Fumitake Koga, came out in 2013 and is a bestseller with more than one million copies sold. Since 2017 he has written for Courrier Japon and overseen its features on Adlerian psychology.