The Schopenhauer Cure

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: Irvin D. Yalom

From the internationally bestselling author of , Love’s Executioner,  and , When Nietzsche Wept, , comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal pain and change livesSuddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work — and seek….Read More

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