Name: The Schopenhauer Cure
ISBN: 9780066214412

作者: Irvin Yalom
出版社: HarperCollins
副标题: A Novel
出版年: 2005-1-4
页数: 368
定价: USD 24.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780066214412

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From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning.

At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished ...

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At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work. Has he really made an enduring difference in the lives of his patients? And what about the patients he's failed? What has happened to them? Now that he is wiser and riper, can he rescue them yet?

Reaching beyond the safety of his thriving San Francisco practice, Julius feels compelled to seek out Philip Slate, whom he treated for sex addiction some twenty-three years earlier. At that time, Philip's only means of connecting to humans was through brief sexual interludes with countless women, and Julius's therapy did not change that. He meets with Philip, who claims to have cured himself -- by reading the pessimistic and misanthropic philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Much to Julius's surprise, Philip has become a philosophical counselor and requests that Julius provide him with the supervisory hours he needs to obtain a license to practice. In return, Philip offers to tutor Julius in the work of Schopenhauer. Julius hesitates. How can Philip possibly become a therapist? He is still the same arrogant, uncaring, self-absorbed person he had always been. In fact, in every way he resembles his mentor, Schopenhauer. But eventually they strike a Faustian bargain: Julius agrees to supervise Philip, provided that Philip first joins his therapy group. Julius is hoping that six months with the group will address Philip's misanthropy and that by being part of a circle of fellow patients, he will develop the relationship skills necessary to become a therapist.

Philip enters the group, but he is more interested in educating the members in Schopenhauer's philosophy -- which he claims is all the therapy anyone should need -- than he is in their individual problems. Soon Julius and Philip, using very different therapeutic approaches, are competing for the hearts and minds of the group members.

Is this going to be Julius's swan song -- a splintered group and years of good work down the drain? Or will all the members, including Philip, find a way to rise to the occasion that brings with it the potential for extraordinary change? In The Schopenhauer Cure, Irvin Yalom elegantly weaves the true story of Schopenhauer's psychological life throughout the narrative, knitting together fact and fiction to form a compellingly readable tale.

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作者简介 · · · · · ·

Irvin D. Yalom

Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University. Author of nonfiction psychiatry texts, novels, and books of stories. Currently in private practice of psychiatry in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California.

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1. 为了生命的有限、缺乏更高的目的或设计，因而活在绝望之中，实在是身在福中不知福；梦想有一个全知的创造者，因此把一生奉献给、永无休止的服从，实在是毫无意义，也浪费了一生：为什么把所有的爱挥霍在幻象之上，却不散播到人间呢？何不欣然接受斯宾诺莎和爱因斯坦的解决方式：单纯地低下头，向优美的法则和大自然的奥秘致敬，投入日常生活的事物。 2. 最重要的就是查拉图斯特拉常常一再提出的询问：我们是否愿意在永恒中，一再重复原有的生活。 3. 天才和才能好比两种神射手，才能可以射中别人无法射中的目标，天才却可以射中别人无法看见的目标。 4. 我们对世界的观点具有坚固的基础，不论或深或浅，都来自童年时代。这种观点在日后会越来越复杂、完善，但本质却不会改变。 5. 最伟大的智慧就是享受生命当下最重要的对象，因为这是唯一的真实，所有其他事物都只是思想游戏。但我们也可以称之为最伟大的愚蠢，因为当下只存在于片刻之间，旋即如梦消失，再也不值得付出一丝努力。 6. 这个世界是上帝创造的吗？不，恐怕是魔鬼创造的。 7. （潘蜜对印度佛陀禅修的思考）她在每一个地方看到放弃、牺牲、限制和顺从。不论生命发生什么事，都是这种态度吗？喜悦、拓展、热情、及时行乐呢？难道生活如此痛苦，要为了平静而牺牲一切吗？也许四圣谛和文化有关吧，也许在二千五百年前充斥贫穷、拥挤、饥馑、疾病、阶级压迫和没有未来的土地上，这是真理吧。但对此时此地而言，四圣谛仍是真理吗？马克思所言岂不是正确的吗？所有强调解脱或更美来世的宗教岂不都是针对贫穷、痛苦和被奴役的人吗？ 8. 菲利浦：当人越认识自己，就越不需要别人。 9. 菲利浦：以前的我渴望他人的陪伴，要求别人把他们无法付出的东西给我时，那才是寂寞。我对寂寞知之甚详，不需要别人就永不寂寞，我追求的是崇高的孤独。 10. 菲利浦：至于所谓悲观主义，我比较认为是写实主义。 11. 悲观主... (查看原文)

Alicia 6赞 2014-10-17 21:41:33

—— 引自章节：摘抄
我们应该宽厚的对待每一个人的愚蠢、缺点和恶行，牢牢记住我们所拥有的也只有自己的缺点、愚蠢和恶行。因为他们只是人类必然的缺点，我们自己也是人，所以内心深处也都埋藏了完全相同的缺点。我们不应该只因为别人在此刻与我们不同，就对他们的恶行感到愤慨。 (查看原文)

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