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.

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.