The Schopenhauer Cure

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From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning. When renowned psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld learns that his life is nearing its end, he begins to question the true impact of his life's work. Determined to revisit one of his greatest failures, he seeks out Philip Slate, a former patient who claims to have transformed himself-not through therapy, but through the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Now aspiring to become a therapist himself, Philip proposes an unlikely bargain: Julius will supervise his training, while Philip introduces him to Schopenhauer's ideas. But before earning Julius's trust, Philip must join his therapy group, where his cold logic and uncompromising worldview challenge everything the group-and Julius-believe about healing. Blending psychological insight with the fascinating life and philosophy of Schopenhauer, The ...