When Nietzsche Wept Preprint - Hardcover

Irvin D. Yalom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465091709 ISBN 13: 9780465091706

Publisher: Basic Books Inc.,U.S., 1992

Synopsis

A richly evocative novel set in nineteenth-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis - By the best-selling author of Love's Executioner. A powerful blend of truth and fiction, in the tradition of The White Hotel and The Seven Percent Solution. The story begins with a strange bargain. The eminent physician Josef Breuer his asked to treated Friendrich Nietzche's suicidal despair after the end of a love affair-without his knowing it. Breuer himself is no stranger to despair, suffering from an obsessive and destructive passion for a former patient. He devises an ingenious approach: Using his experimental "talking cure", he will heal Nietzche ,who viewed himself as physician of culture, is forced to apply his theories to flesh-and-blood human beings in curing his own nihilism, as well as Breuner's. Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of "Love's Executioner. Every Day Gets a Little Closer, and best-selling textbooks in psychotherapy. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Standford University. He lives in Palo Alto,California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0465091709
• ISBN 13: 9780465091706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336