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When Nietzsche wept / Irvin D. Yalom.
LIBRA PS3575.A39 W47 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yalom, Irvin D., 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Fiction.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925--Fiction.
- Breuer, Josef.
- Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Psychotherapist and patient--Fiction.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Depression, Mental--Fiction.
- Depression, Mental.
- Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
- Suicidal behavior.
- Male friendship--Fiction.
- Male friendship.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First Perennial Classics edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York]: [Published by] Perennial [an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2005]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Basic Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers in 1992.
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Winner of Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- ISBN:
- 0060748125
- 9780060748128
- OCLC:
- 56777683
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