Schopenhauer as Medicine

Experienced psychotherapist Julius learns that he is terminally ill. His days are numbered, and in the last year of his life, he decides to correct a long-standing mistake and heal a patient he failed twenty years ago. Philip, a philosopher by profession and a misanthrope by vocation, plans to engage in "philosophical counseling" and heal people with Schopenhauer's philosophy – just as he once healed himself. The two meet in a psychotherapy group and change beyond recognition over the course of a year. One learns to die. The other learns to live. The "dress rehearsal for life" that takes place in the group is indistinguishable from life itself, equally captivating and full of surprises. Irvin D. Yalom is an American psychotherapist, author of several international bestsellers, theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy, and a popular writer. Here is his latest novel. "Schopenhauer as Medicine" is a book about how philosophy destroys and heals the human soul.