“A beautifully wrought tale of a therapy group’s final year and a moving debate about the end of life.” -- Kirkus Reviews
“The world’s first accurate group-therapy novel, a mezmerizing story of two men’s search for meaning.” -- Greensboro News & Record
“Yalom’s melding of philosophy, pedantry, psychiatry and literature result in a surprisingly engaging novel of ideas.” -- San Francisco Chronicle
“Considers the value and limits of therapy and those points at which philosophy and psychology converge.” -- Washington Post
“Meticulous. [Yalom’s] re-creation of a working therapy group is utterly convincing.” -- Publishers Weekly
“As a novel of ideas, this book effectively explores loss, sexual desire, and the search for meaning.” -- Library Journal
“Yalom’s enthusiasm is contagious. And he certainly knows how to tell a page-turning story.” -- Los Angeles Times
著者について
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is the author of Love's Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Lying on the Couch, The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, as well as several classic textbooks on psychotherapy, including The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, considered the foremost work on group therapy. The Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University, he divides his practice between Palo Alto, where he lives, and San Francisco, California.
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint版 (2020/11/10)
5つ星のうち4.0Loved the book but is Schopenhauer so intolerable as a person as he's painted?
2018年4月1日に英国でレビュー済み
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As usual with Yalom's work, I was gripped from the start by this novel and read compulsively. Yalom is a master storyteller and narrator. I very much enjoyed this offering. Nevertheless, I have the feeling that the massive character assassination (contained within) of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is a little unfair. Yalom himself paints a picture of dedicated and supportive Schopenhauer followers including the loyal executor of Schopenhauer's will. If Schopenhauer was so unattractive in all things (superior, isolated, extremely pessimistic, humourless and misanthropic) how come he had any followers? On finishing Yalom's novel I downloaded the entire works of Schopenhauer on Kindle (49p) and began reading his preface to his first edition of: 'The World as Will and Idea' (1819). I was astounded to find it contained a very good (barbed) joke that had me laughing out loud. So not so humourless then? I will keep reading and currently I'm prepared to give the bad press on Schopenhauer's character the benefit of some doubt.
A friend who shares her reading opinions with me (and I with her) recommended this book to me. I thought it was fascinating and illuminating and couldn't put it down. The book deals with Julius, a psychotherapist, and his confrontation with his impending death, and with his last year with his intensive therapy group. I have since then started to read everything Irvin Yalom has written, which has moved me onto reading Schopenhaur and Nietzsche, which had the spin off effect of deciding to go into therapy! I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in philosophy and psychotherapy.Yalom has an easy going way of melding both which draws the non professional into the group therapy situation and its human dramas.
Having read Love's Executioner by Yalom I was hooked on this author/therapist. The Schopenhauer Cure did not disappoint. Highly entertaining, extremely informative and a delight to read. I can hardly wait for my daily dose of reading and feel that this book needs to be on all recommended reading lists for anyone training or developing their counselling/therapy skills. Definitely a FIVE STAR read. (though I think I pressed 4 by mistake)
Yalom as always amazes with his ability to bring together philosophy, psychology and history. Add his ability to come up with a fictional environment and a well-researched content, you won't be disappointed.