From the acclaimed author of Love's Executioner and Schopenhauer's Couch comes a
?fascinating...shrewd intellectual thriller? ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ) about pioneering
Viennese psychoanalyst Josef Breuer and his intriguing patient?Friedrich Nietzsche 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.
