When Nietzsche Wept

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Richard Powers

In 19th-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.

©1992, 2003 Irvin D. Yalom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Brilliant

Brilliantly conceived, written and narrated. Definitely recommended for anyone interested in human insight, through the minds of Yalom, Breuer (Freud’s mentor) and Nietzsche.

Profound

The sophisticated bromance of humanities great thinkers from the 1800s and the influence woman they loved had on them.

Overall decent for a fiction nieztche therapy book

It was okay. Really nothing special as it's based on therapy and how it could've been employed by nietzsche. Not bad if you're into this kind of stuff.

Masterpiece!

Wonderful piece of art. The narrator is clearly very skilled; you can easily get into a trance listening to him narrating.

Don’t miss this gem

The quality of writing, the thought provoking way in which the issues of philosophy and psychotherapy are portrayed is truly artistic. Highly highly recommend this audio book. Narration was excellent as well!

live changing for all and non therapists

expreriencia increiblemente clara de como uno puede aproximar a la labor de ser terapeuta de otros y uno mismo.

Very Insightful

As a new practicing psychotherapist I really enjoyed the clues and insight offered into the development of psychotherapy, or "talk therapy".

Become who you are!

I have thoroughly enjoyed the "When Nietzsche Wept" audiobook, and found both the story as well as the performance excellent! A great "teaching novel" by Irvin Yalom, addressing big life questions that are very recognizable. Nice blend of philosophy and psychotherapy, and an engaging plot where the lines between therapist and patient get very blurry. I got a much better insight into the works of Nietzsche through this book, he truly seems to be one of the founding fathers of "self-actualization". Hats off to Yalom, who manages to make a book that is 80% dialogue and 10% monologue (diary entries, patient reports) fascinating!

Is a good book

I think is a good book, but I will say that is inclined for those that want to fantasize about the story of those philosophers but also about the possibilities of them playing those cards in a parallel world.

The bookI also gives you a lot of perspective of one’s destiny and decisions we make by overthinking and yet is all in our heads and not so much in real life action.

Fiction at its finest.

Beautiful insights, perspectives, convictions, questions, surprises. Constantly intriguing, disruptive, thought-provoking and satisfying.

Incredible author, excellent narrator.