When Nietzsche Wept — Irvin D Yalom

A pleasure to read both for its intriguing cross discussion of philosophy and emerging psychotherapsy and for ist powerful evocation of the eccentric characters of Nietzsche and Breuer San Francisco Chronicle 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 headache 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 An intelligent carefully researched richly imagined novel Boston Globe