Why do people continually hide their real selves from the people around them? Why are so many so insecure and afraid to open up? The answer, explains this text, is that maturity as people is reached by communicating and interacting with others. The problem this book considers is what happens to our real selves if no one else ever finds out what we are like? This volume explains how to be more emotionally open, and shows how people adopt roles and play psychological games to protect their inner selves. The courage to be our real selves can be developed, the author says, and then we can begin to grow.

Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? and The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902

The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902

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I read Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am? by John Powell SJ when I was about 17 yrs of age. It awakened an interest in psychology which has stayed with me since. I have just written and published Nine Seahorses: A Plea For Sanity In Three Parts which is the reflection of some 30 years as a psychologist but also as a flawed human being in the world since that time. If you are very familiar with Why Am I Afraid, you may see echoes of its style - what with the illustrations playing with the narrative and so on - in Nine Seahorses. Later copies of Why Am I Afraid, sadly, don't have the same quality of colour illustrations as the first editions I seem to think. Anyway - for me - Why Am I Afraid is a psychology and human condition classic. Nine Seahorses is intended as a conversation-starter and, who knows, some folks somewhere may benefit in miscellaneous ways from it. It certainly carries a message of hope. Best wishes to all who read this review!

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