Description:
"Magical." -Washington Post Book World
"The best dramatization of a great thinker s thought since Sartre s The Freud Scenario." -Chicago Tribune
From renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, acclaimed author of The Schopenhauer Cure and Love s Executioner, the international bestseller When Nietzsche Wept is a richly imagined tale of two brilliant and enigmatic men plumbing the depths of their psyches to discover the redemptive power of friendship."
Brief description:
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is one of the world's foremost psychiatrists, a visionary therapist and internationally bestselling author. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, When Nietzsche Wept, the Schopenhauer Cure, and most recently A Matter of Death and Life, a dual memoir written with his late wife, Marilyn Yalom, PhD. His textbooks Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy and Existential Therapy are standards for therapists in training worldwide. In 2014 he was the subject of the documentary Yalom's Cure. Now in his nineties, Dr. Yalom continues to live and write in Northern California.
Review Quotes:
"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