About the book
Set mostly in Vienna in 1882, Irvin D. Yalom's 1992 novel imagines a meeting between the physician Josef Breuer and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Breuer, one of the founding figures of psychoanalysis, is at the peak of his career. Nietzsche is close to suicidal despair, unable to cure the headaches and other ailments that afflict him. After Lou Salome writes that the future of German philosophy is at stake and that Nietzsche urgently needs help, Breuer agrees to treat him with his experimental talking cure, devising a way to make the philosopher apply his own theories to himself. Yalom mixes historical figures, including a young Sigmund Freud, with invented scenes, and the novel takes up the theme of limerence.
Bookster co-CEO Alexandra Stroe named it one of her favorite non-business books, praising how honestly Yalom's books treat death, aging, love and the meaning of life.
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Alexandra Stroe (Co-CEO/Bookster)
One of my favorite non-business books is When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom. His books combine psychotherapy, philosophy and science fiction and they address issues like death, growing old, love and the meaning of life in a very honest way. Many of his books give you an insight into the conversations between the psychotherapist and his patients and the interaction between them is always human and sincere. The therapist makes mistakes, sometimes says the wrong thing and this makes the story exciting and extremely real.
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