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The content of The Schopenhauer Cure is once again a psychotherapeutic adventure, which, however, no longer unfolds within the closed system of individual psychotherapy. The author guides the reader...
The content of The Schopenhauer Cure is once again a psychotherapeutic adventure, which, however, no longer unfolds within the closed system of individual psychotherapy. The author guides the reader into a new therapeutic space. If in When Nietzsche Wept we were opened a window into pre-psychoanalytic Vienna, and if in The Divided Self we were presented with...
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The content of The Schopenhauer Cure is once again a psychotherapeutic adventure, which, however, no longer unfolds within the closed system of individual psychotherapy. The author guides the reader into a new therapeutic space. If in When Nietzsche Wept we were opened a window into pre-psychoanalytic Vienna, and if in The Divided Self we were presented with the community of individual psychotherapy in America, here we are placed behind the one-way mirror to observe the microcosm of group psychotherapy.
Yalom does not disguise his educational intent in The Schopenhauer Cure: here he has conceived and composed his story with the goal of teaching the theory and methods of group psychotherapy, but also to discuss the philosophical foundations of psychoanalytic theory, the relationship (and the opposition) between philosophy and psychotherapy, as well as questions he has dealt with in his previous books: How do major existential problems affect our relationships and decisions, what is healing within the therapeutic process, and what are the characteristics of a good psychotherapist.
In the development of the plot - in which the character that serves as the connecting link between the present and the past is Philip Slate, a man with a tormented sexual obsession, who believes he was healed by adopting Arthur Schopenhauer's worldview and shaping his life based on him as a model - Yalom interjects brief lessons on the life and work of the pessimistic German philosopher (1788-1860).
A master of character description, Yalom puts forth psychoanalytic-type hypotheses regarding the formation of Schopenhauer's psyche and follows his life with such empathy that the reader ends up feeling great tenderness for the misanthropic philosopher as well as for the man who represents the philosopher's "reincarnation" in the present, the cold and inhuman Philip Slate in his isolation.
In The Schopenhauer Cure, more than in any of his other works, Yalom presents himself with minimal disguise. From the perspective of the process, therefore, writing this book is an act of transparency from the author. Beyond the transformative power of psychotherapy for the patients and its allure for the trainees, Yalom shows the reader, in the most vivid manner possible, its life-giving power for the therapist himself.
The very act of writing The Schopenhauer Cure also reveals how much life force literary creation offers to the author himself.
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