Julius Hertzfeldt is 65 years old and enjoys an excellent reputation as a psychoanalyst with colleagues and patients. Since the death of his wife from many
n years, he found great fulfillment in his work and passion to help other people. But all this falls apart when he receives the diagnosis of a malignant cancerous disease, which he concedes only one more year.
crystallizes fast from the burgeoning problem of the meaning of his life, the question of the lasting achievements of his work as a psychotherapist. Sure, he had been able to help many people thoroughly front, he was sure. But something obscures this certainty.
"Did you help your patients really and truly? Perhaps you have just learned, you choose the patients who It would have been even better by itself. "
Driven by his answer to this question referred to it as a thorn in the flesh of his self-sits, takes Julius contact Philip Slate, a former patient. When he learns that Philip, whom he tried unsuccessfully to treat his sex addiction for years from just by reading Schopenhauer was completely cured of his passion is Julius' interest aroused.
"The Schopenhauer Cure" is an intelligent novel that can arise between the poles of philosophy and psychology, a broad field of human search for meaning. Like a pendulum between these two poles usually lead alternating chapters in the beginning completely antagonistic worlds appearing in Schopenhauer's philosophy and group therapy.
weaves skillfully Yalom all these aspects in an interesting and exciting plot with one, which has a captivating and many the theoretical constructs and principles can appear very entertaining and interesting. An interesting insight into the world of Philosophy from Kant to Schopenhauer specifically to Nietzsche on Freud and his link up to the modern analysis. A really great book, for which one might describe as follows a saying of Zoroaster :
War "that the book (Orig ? life) Well, once again!
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