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.
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.
發表於2024-11-22
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去年一個人旅行,隨身帶瞭一本叔本華的書。獨自坐在火車上,看著窗外白雪皚皚的景色,叔本華的語言讓我在孤獨中找到力量。他的傲慢、他的冷靜,我都一並帶入瞭那趟旅行,讓我在旅途中深入到自己內心去察看。但是,也讓我在這趟為期兩周的旅行中,完全自給自足,沒有交到朋友。 ...
評分叔本華可以算是我人生中認識的第一個哲學傢。高中的某個暑假伊始,在我從六元書店抱迴傢的厚厚一打書中的一本,其中一本便是叔本華的《作為意誌和錶象的世界》。當時純粹隻是想瞭解一下哲學是什麼,便從書架上一排哲人叢書中隨手選瞭一本。現在想想,這真是悲劇的開始。我大概...
評分孤獨、痛苦、不可逃避的死亡,人生下來就要麵對並為之哭泣,那麼人存在的意義究竟何在?難道就是為瞭承受這些?人類一直在探索各種方法,試圖從心靈的層麵獲得救贖。
圖書標籤: 心理學 小說 美國 心理谘詢 IrvinYalom 心理治療 心理 歐文.亞隆
非常引人入勝。團體心理治療的方法很好的融閤在富有張力的小說中。
評分A page turner
評分Fantastic
評分多謝朋友的推薦,這是怎樣的一杯細膩、豐富而深邃的雞尾酒啊:心理,哲學,自救,救人,生死,存在......而貫穿始終的對生活和人生的愛,對fellow sufferers的愛,在我看來,便是全書的靈魂所在,也是書名所指的真正cure
評分Yalom 麵臨死亡,人生集大成之作
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