The Schopenhauer Cure

Irvin D. YalomProfessor 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.

出版者:HarperCollins

作者:Irvin Yalom

页数:368

出版时间:2005-1-4

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780066214412

图书标签:心理学小说美国心理咨询IrvinYalom心理治疗心理欧文.亚隆

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.

读后感

去年一个人旅行，随身带了一本叔本华的书。独自坐在火车上，看着窗外白雪皑皑的景色，叔本华的语言让我在孤独中找到力量。他的傲慢、他的冷静，我都一并带入了那趟旅行，让我在旅途中深入到自己内心去察看。但是，也让我在这趟为期两周的旅行中，完全自给自足，没有交到朋友。 ...  

这本书一直到菲利普这个人物的出现，才深深抓住了我。每读一句他的话，好像看见另一个自己一样，忍俊不禁。 他好像是这样一个人，并不轻易说出一句话。可是每句话都有他的力度，至少最初听到他说话的人都会心醉沉迷。因为读过太多书（尤其是哲学书），菲利普的话总是引经据典...  

叔本华如何拯救了菲利浦？ 叔本华坦言性驱力令人敬畏，是我们内在最基本的力量，是使我们想活下去和繁衍后代的意志。这个力量不会平息，也无法用理性来压抑。这一观点令菲利浦感到有生以来第一次被全然了解。 叔本华还指出我们注定在此生中不断地转动意志之轮：渴望某种东西、...

昨天看完了《叔本华的治疗》，刚刚发现自己对待别人的态度似乎有所改变。 以前对待某人，我习惯性地忍耐，几乎对他的一切兼容并包。因为我在意他，总希望自己的所作所为能给他留下好的印象。为此，对待他即使是忽略的态度也照单全收。不善于表达自己，善于忍耐和等待风雨后的彩...  

昨天看完了《叔本华的治疗》，刚刚发现自己对待别人的态度似乎有所改变。 以前对待某人，我习惯性地忍耐，几乎对他的一切兼容并包。因为我在意他，总希望自己的所作所为能给他留下好的印象。为此，对待他即使是忽略的态度也照单全收。不善于表达自己，善于忍耐和等待风雨后的彩...  

用户评价

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。

小组心理治疗的部分写得特别精彩。同时对叔本华的哲学思想也有了初步了解。

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。

非常引人入胜。团体心理治疗的方法很好的融合在富有张力的小说中。

Yalom 面临死亡，人生集大成之作