When Nietzsche wept
(1992)
Author: Irvin D Yalom
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: en
ISBN: 9780062009302
Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Medical novels
Asked to treat Friedrich Nietzsche for his suicidal despair following a broken love affair, eminent Viennese physician Josef Breuer devises an ingenius approach that would force Nietzsche to apply his own theories to cure himself.