THE TABOO AGAINST BEING YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND deals with the adverse affects of social, cultural and psychological conditioning, which makes us self-estranged. Axiomatic of this lack of self-worth is the cruelty we show our own bodies by incessant modifications with plastic surgery, lipo suction and tummy tucks to modify our natural appearance and prevent the aging process or the ravages of undisciplined eating and drinking. The source of self-negating behavior often is at the core an excessive need to please others at the expense of self-acceptance. This leads almost inevitably to self-contempt when we should be our own best friend when there are no others. Dr. Fisher systematically takes the reader through the mind-field that can and often does makes us a prisoner of our own minds, captive to someone else's agenda with a card carrying victim mentality. This puts limits on what we can become as it limits the choices we authorize ourselves to make. Ask and answer the question: who put you in the cage? You did. We all do. We all live in the cage we self-construct around how we define ourselves.