Raise Your Right Hand Against Fear: Extend the Other in Compassion

A guide to confronting and managing fear explores the question of when to put fears aside and push on, the value of some fears, sharing fears with loved ones, and the relief of disclosing fear

ou Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! (Bantam, 1976), therapist Kopp tackled the subject of personal responsibility; here he turns his attention to inner and outer fears, arguing that only by facing them head-on can one dare to risk vulnerability and compassion. At first the frank self-disclosure may startle some readers, but the deeper one goes in this mixed bag of personal sharing, clinical case material, and literary criticism (Kopp discusses horror/gothic tales, too), the more one is strangely moved--especially at the end, when Kopp shares his traumatic encounter with a brain tumor. Off-beat but ultimately persuasive.-- EC
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