The Schopenhauer Cure
Yalom, Irvin D. / Hellegers, Neil
Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work--and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured--miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer--and is, himself, a philosophical counselor in training. Philip's dour, misant...
