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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060748128 ISBN: 0060748125 Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: January 01, 2005 Release Date: January 04, 2005 Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good plot and good content, but begs a more concise writing styleIf this plot is original, then the author truely deserves credit for his imagination that brought various real historical figures together in this believable drama. I also appreciate how the author weaved into the plot many references to Nietzsche's philosophy, Freud's psycholoanalysis, socio-political background in Europe and the state of medicine at around 1882 in Europe. I am not an expert in these areas, but it seems that the author's references were well-researched and good enough for the general ... Read More Rating:  - EnjoyableI savored this book and looked forward to reading it each night, not wanting it to end. One of my favorite writers. Rating: - Yet another captivating, must-read from Yalom!I wanted so badly to believe all of the details in this story were true; Yalom described the characters with fantastic but not excessive detail, and allows the reader to get inside the head of each, and to varying extents. I can't get enough of Yalom. If you like to learn about therapy, read his books! Rating: - Learning to Love One's LifeIrvin Yalom is a psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophy. In works of fiction and non-fiction he has tried to combine these two disciplines for the insights they may jointly offer to people. "When Nietzsche Wept" (1992) is probably Yalom's most successful novel. In his book, Yalom imagines a lengthy encounter between Josef Breuer (1842-1925), a Viennese physician who, among other accomplishments helped found psychoanalysis, and the philosopher Friederich Nietzsche.(1844 -1900) Yalom's ... Read More Rating: - brillant work (accuracy aside)This is a very heart-touching novel, easily one of the book novels I've read. But it must not be approached as a history text, or you'll be rather disillusioned. Yalom makes it clear that none of the events in the text actually occurred; nevertheless, in a very intricate way Yalom humanizes Nietzsche, who, judging from his works alone, can come off as bitter and arrogant. Also, some of Nietzsche's philosophies as interpreted by Yalom can be interpreted in other ways, but the author does provide a nice summary ... Read More 
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