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.