Having taken on the origins of psychotherapy in the popular When Nietzsche Wept, psychiatrist-novelist Yalom now turns to group therapy and the thinker sometimes known as the "philosopher of pessimism," in this meticulous, occasionally slow-moving book. Julius Hertzfeld, a successful therapist in San Francisco, is shocked by the news that he suffers from terminal cancer. Moved to reassess his life's work, he contacts Philip Slate, whose three years of therapy for sexual addiction Julius describes as an "old-time major-league failure." Philip is now training to be a therapist himself, guided by the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, and he offers to teach Julius about Schopenhauer as a way of helping him deal with his looming death. Julius and Philip strike a deal: Julius will serve as Philip's clinical supervisor, but only if Philip joins the ongoing therapy group Julius leads. To complicate matters further, Pam, a group member, is one of the hundreds of women Philip seduced and then rejected. Yalom often refers to his books as "teaching novels," and his re-creation of a working therapy group is utterly convincing. At the same time, his approach can be overly documentary, as the inner workings of therapy, often repetitious and self-referential, absorb much of the novel's momentum. A parallel account of Schopenhauer's life sheds light on the philosopher's intellectual triumphs and emotional difficulties. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Irvin David Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom (Washington, DC, Estados Unidos, 13 de Junho de 1931) é um escritor americano. Filho de imigrantes russos, formou-se em psiquiatria na Universidade de Stanford e está há 47 anos em Stanford, é ateu. Tornou-se conhecido quando sua obra Love's Executioner and Others Tales of Psychotherapy, publicada em 1989, alcançou a lista de livros mais vendidos nos Estados Unidos. Na mesma linha, seguiu-se Momma and the Meaning of Life (1999). Seu primeiro romance foi Quando Nietzsche Chorou (1992). Lançou também A Cura de Schopenhauer, Mentiras no divã e Os desafios da terapia. Em Quando Nieztche chorou, Irvin Yalon romantiza a vida de Friedrich Nietzsche e Josef Breuer. Apesar dos personagens principais da trama nunca terem se conhecido (o próprio autor afirma em suas observações no final do livro), o romance é parcialmente baseado em fatos reais.
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