When Nietzsche Wept

Best-selling author Irvin D. Yalom presents an engaging blend of fact and fiction, a drama of love, fate, and will set against the backdrop of Vienna’s intellectual ferment in the nineteenth century, on the verge of the emergence of psychoanalysis.

An extraordinary patient... A talented physician 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 in Europe (F. Nietzsche) and one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis (J. Breuer).

Yalom draws in not only Nietzsche and Breuer but also Lou Salome, "Anna O.," and the young intern Sigmund Freud.