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 ...
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 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.
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.
schopenhauer is a genius. 他对unconsious/life force/desire/impulse/will to live的感受天生就比普通人强烈得多。他的欲求和悲伤已经不是可以靠stoics的理性思考和隔离禁欲来排解的。把what's inside us写出来，尝试自我救赎，这是他一辈子在做的事。所以nietzsche是weep. schopenhauer是cur...schopenhauer is a genius. 他对unconsious/life force/desire/impulse/will to live的感受天生就比普通人强烈得多。他的欲求和悲伤已经不是可以靠stoics的理性思考和隔离禁欲来排解的。把what's inside us写出来，尝试自我救赎，这是他一辈子在做的事。所以nietzsche是weep. schopenhauer是cure. 所以题目不仅仅是cure philip,the most handsome mind in the book. (展开)
Group therapy看上去也太有趣了吧！最近连看两本欧文亚隆的书感觉尼采和叔本华心理都不大健康的样子。。抛开理论只看人物个性的话感觉他们确实好难搞哦，没得亲密关系也不奇怪。。虽然两位一再强调自己只需要智慧，不需要亲密关系，只需要自己的理论造福人类传流传千秋万代，但是在欧文亚隆笔下的结局都是惨兮兮的哭着说都没得人爱我，我都得不到爱呜呜呜🤷♀️
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1 有用 ztmp 2016-07-02 20:02:12
多谢朋友的推荐，这是怎样的一杯细腻、丰富而深邃的鸡尾酒啊：心理，哲学，自救，救人，生死，存在......而贯穿始终的对生活和人生的爱，对fellow sufferers的爱，在我看来，便是全书的灵魂所在，也是书名所指的真正cure
0 有用 moviejunkie 2014-06-16 19:19:42
也不过是人生苦海无欲则刚那类自欺欺人的把戏。不过也算是低落时所谓哲学的慰藉吧
0 有用 黄昏之鸟 2017-02-23 07:15:09
我以前从不喜欢团体，透过这本书第一次看到了团体的魅力。它让我意识到团体的生命力可以冲破个体对个体的局限，承受住个体对个体无法负担的内容。爱欲和死亡，一个人并不注定是孤岛。
1 有用 悦满心间 2022-01-19 10:45:56
90岁存在主义心理学大师欧文亚隆的心理哲学三部曲第二本《叔本华的治疗》，探讨人生终极关怀三大问题：死亡、性和生命的意义。很庆幸克服自己的死亡恐惧把这本书读完，在大师引导下完成自我疗愈之旅。叔本华的悲观主义哲学充满惊人智慧，但他一生孤独远离人群。欧文亚隆尝试团体治疗（基于人的绝望来自于无法与他人建立持久、有意义的关系）疗愈和他相似的人。作者解决了我的两大困惑：1．叔本华如此有智慧的人，然而，了解他的... 90岁存在主义心理学大师欧文亚隆的心理哲学三部曲第二本《叔本华的治疗》，探讨人生终极关怀三大问题：死亡、性和生命的意义。很庆幸克服自己的死亡恐惧把这本书读完，在大师引导下完成自我疗愈之旅。叔本华的悲观主义哲学充满惊人智慧，但他一生孤独远离人群。欧文亚隆尝试团体治疗（基于人的绝望来自于无法与他人建立持久、有意义的关系）疗愈和他相似的人。作者解决了我的两大困惑：1．叔本华如此有智慧的人，然而，了解他的生活和性格后，又不禁唏嘘。欧文亚隆帮我们找到他的心理病征，尝试提出解决建议；2．佛学和叔本华均认为人生苦痛，难道我们应该遁世吗？这是最佳解决方案吗？欧文亚隆分析了，叔本华的个人成长环境和所处时代对他悲观哲学影响，也让我们辩证看待思考他的解决方案。欧老爷子最终对生和死的解答看来还是来自于存在主义尼采啊 (展开)
1 有用 塞得内斯 2015-05-31 17:55:33
nice subway reading (...well, I only read on subways '_>'
0 有用 红豆杉 2024-04-04 02:18:44 美国
“Philip, that perspective was meant in jest.”
0 有用 霹雳大叔 2024-04-02 10:42:52 北京
一看就惊艳，持续阅读中...
0 有用 泰洛丹 2023-10-18 12:43:13 上海
schopenhauer is a genius. 他对unconsious/life force/desire/impulse/will to live的感受天生就比普通人强烈得多。他的欲求和悲伤已经不是可以靠stoics的理性思考和隔离禁欲来排解的。把what's inside us写出来，尝试自我救赎，这是他一辈子在做的事。所以nietzsche是weep. schopenhauer是cur... schopenhauer is a genius. 他对unconsious/life force/desire/impulse/will to live的感受天生就比普通人强烈得多。他的欲求和悲伤已经不是可以靠stoics的理性思考和隔离禁欲来排解的。把what's inside us写出来，尝试自我救赎，这是他一辈子在做的事。所以nietzsche是weep. schopenhauer是cure. 所以题目不仅仅是cure philip,the most handsome mind in the book. (展开)
0 有用 YamOats 2023-07-09 12:30:04 加拿大
Group therapy看上去也太有趣了吧！最近连看两本欧文亚隆的书感觉尼采和叔本华心理都不大健康的样子。。抛开理论只看人物个性的话感觉他们确实好难搞哦，没得亲密关系也不奇怪。。虽然两位一再强调自己只需要智慧，不需要亲密关系，只需要自己的理论造福人类传流传千秋万代，但是在欧文亚隆笔下的结局都是惨兮兮的哭着说都没得人爱我，我都得不到爱呜呜呜🤷♀️
0 有用 freesia 2023-07-04 21:25:58 美国
Live a fulfilled life, and live it again, and again and again.