When Nietzsche Wept - Hardcover

Yalom, Irvin D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465091725 ISBN 13: 9780465091720

Publisher: Basic Books, 1992

Synopsis

Asked to treat Friedrich Nietzsche for his suicidal despair following a broken love affair, eminent Viennese physician Josef Breuer devises an ingenius approach that would force Nietzsche to apply his own theories to cure himself. $35,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

"When Nietzsche Wept is the best dramatization of a great thinker's thought since Sartre's The Freud Scenario."--Chicago Tribune

"An intelligent, carefully researched, richly imagined novel."--Boston Globe

"Strong and authentic. The element of surprise is a magical, jolting moment."--Washington Post Book World

An intelligent, carefully researched, richly imagined novel. --Boston Globe"

Strong and authentic. The element of surprise is a magical, jolting moment. --Washington Post Book World"

When Nietzsche Wept is the best dramatization of a great thinker s thought since Sartre s The Freud Scenario. --Chicago Tribune"

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0465091725
• ISBN 13: 9780465091720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1