When Nietzsche Wept

The author of numerous bestsellers, Irvin D. Yalom, presents you with an enthralling blend of fact and fiction, a drama about love, fate, and will, unfolding against the backdrop of the intellectual ferment of 19th century Vienna, on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis.

An extraordinary patient... A talented healer tormented by anguish... A secret pact. The combination of these elements gives rise to an unforgettable saga of the supposedly real relationship between the greatest philosopher of Europe (F. Nietzsche) and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis (J. Breuer).

Yalom involves not only Nietzsche and Breuer but also Lou Salomé, "Anna O." and the young medical intern Sigmund Freud.