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.
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。 ...
评分 评分一 新闻报道,伍兹性丑闻事件曝光后,开始接受心理医师组织的团体治疗。所谓团体治疗,就是病患在医师的带领下,彼此敞开心扉互相鼓励,以求共度难关。 看起来像是一群loser走投无路下的聚会,你愿意加入吗?如果和去教堂参加团契作个二选一,你会选什么?我们很健康,不是老...
评分一 新闻报道,伍兹性丑闻事件曝光后,开始接受心理医师组织的团体治疗。所谓团体治疗,就是病患在医师的带领下,彼此敞开心扉互相鼓励,以求共度难关。 看起来像是一群loser走投无路下的聚会,你愿意加入吗?如果和去教堂参加团契作个二选一,你会选什么?我们很健康,不是老...
多谢朋友的推荐,这是怎样的一杯细腻、丰富而深邃的鸡尾酒啊:心理,哲学,自救,救人,生死,存在......而贯穿始终的对生活和人生的爱,对fellow sufferers的爱,在我看来,便是全书的灵魂所在,也是书名所指的真正cure
评分Yalom 面临死亡,人生集大成之作
评分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。
评分很值得一看的小说
评分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。
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