When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

From the
acclaimed author of 
Love's Executioner and Schopenhauer’s
Couch
, comes a
“fascinating…shrewd intellectual thriller” (
Los
Angeles Times Book Review
)
about pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst Josef Breuer and his intriguing patient—Friedrich
Nietzsche

In nineteenth-century Vienna, a
drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that
defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis,
is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest
philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the
headaches and other ailments that plague him.




When he agrees to treat Nietzsche
with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will
find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the
gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin
Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an
unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship. 

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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

From the
acclaimed author of 
Love's Executioner and Schopenhauer’s
Couch
, comes a
“fascinating…shrewd intellectual thriller” (
Los
Angeles Times Book Review
)
about pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst Josef Breuer and his intriguing patient—Friedrich
Nietzsche

In nineteenth-century Vienna, a
drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that
defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis,
is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest
philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the
headaches and other ailments that plague him.




When he agrees to treat Nietzsche
with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will
find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the
gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin
Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an
unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship. 

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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

by Irvin D. Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

by Irvin D. Yalom

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From the
acclaimed author of 
Love's Executioner and Schopenhauer’s
Couch
, comes a
“fascinating…shrewd intellectual thriller” (
Los
Angeles Times Book Review
)
about pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst Josef Breuer and his intriguing patient—Friedrich
Nietzsche

In nineteenth-century Vienna, a
drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that
defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis,
is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest
philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the
headaches and other ailments that plague him.




When he agrees to treat Nietzsche
with his experimental “talking cure,” Breuer never expects that he too will
find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the
gifted healer begin to help his patient. In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin
Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense, to unfold an
unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062009302
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/10/2020
Series: P.S. Series
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is one of the world’s foremost psychiatrists, a visionary therapist and internationally bestselling author. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Love’s Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, When Nietzsche Wept, the Schopenhauer Cure, and most recently A Matter of Death and Life, a dual memoir written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, PhD. His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy are standards for therapists in training worldwide. In 2014 he was the subject of the documentary Yalom's Cure. Now in his nineties, Dr. Yalom continues to live and write in Northern California.

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