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Original Title:	When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession
ISBN:	0060748125 (ISBN13: 9780060748128)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Friedrich Nietzsche, Josef Breuer, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Sigmund Freud
Setting:	Vienna,1882(Austria)
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (1992)

When Nietzsche Wept Paperback | Pages: 310 pages

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Title	:	When Nietzsche Wept
Author	:	Irvin D. Yalom
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	January 4th 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Psychology. Fiction. Philosophy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

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In 19th-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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The Doctor of DespairThe fin de siecle Viennese satirist, Karl Kraus, took a dim view of the emerging field of psychiatry: Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. And, somewhat surprisingly, this is the main theme of this novel by an eminent psychotherapist. Psychiatry is indeed a field of Byzantine relationships. Perhaps that is Yaloms point.Friedrich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer never really met; but Yalom puts them in an intense relationship of mutual

I am not in the habit of trashing a book. However, since this novel had been published as a "Perennial Classic," there is no danger that I might destroy a writer's career. However, the choice of this book as a "classic" left me perplexed: why this book is held in such a high regard?The premise of Yalom's novel is interesting: Get two of the most innovative thinkers of modern times to meet. And then what? Friederich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer--the father of modern philosophy and the father of

For a review in Italian, please visit: https://sonnenbarke.wordpress.com/201...Irvin D. Yalom is a famous American psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who writes with this book a novel about the history of psychotherapy. So he must know what he's writing about. It is important to keep in mind that this is a novel and not a non-fiction book. At the end of the book the author adds a note where he explains which parts are fiction and which are factual. This is very useful in order to better

Beach reading for the brainy set. Keeping in mind that this is one of Yaloms teaching novels, envisioned not to entertain, or even to achieve artistically, but to serve as a type of literary experiential learning tool for therapists and therapists-to-be, really helps with tolerating the expository nature of much of the book. Also, Yaloms nerdy and passionate enthusiasm is infectious, and if one surrenders to it, it allows the reader to join in with the fun he clearly was having writing this



4.25★I really enjoyed this book. The writing style is not my favorite, for sure, and maybe that's why I didn't give this book a 5★ review. This book combined philosophy, psychology and historical fiction, and it was done in a great way. It was slow in the beginning (and I think that's more because of the writing style than the story itself), but it got way better as I continued reading it. I loved the conversations between Nietzsche and doctor Breuer, and I love how well researched this story

When Nietzsche wept, Irvin D. YalomWhen Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom. The novel starts with Dr. Josef Breuer, sitting in a cafe in Venice, Italy waiting for Lou Salomé, who was involved with Friedrich Nietzsche. She has written a letter stating that the future of the philosophy of Germany is at stake and that the German philosopher needs help desperately. The plot develops into a therapy where Breuer needs to have his soul treated, i.e. to help him get over a patient who he