![]() ![]() ![]() Nietzsche consults Breuer in Vienna and, after a series of subtle subterfuges, agrees to a month of daily meetings Breuer's plan is to employ the talking cure on the bristling Nietzsche under the guise of getting the philosopher to help him with his own obsession and related depression. ![]() On vacation in Venice, he is asked by Lou Salome, an imperious Russian woman, to treat German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who has threatened suicide because of her rejection. But now it is Breuer who needs help, for he has become obsessed with the beautiful Anna O. This talky first novel by psychotherapist Yalom ( Love's Executioner ) is set in 1882 Vienna, where Joseph Breuer, an eminent physician and mentor of Sigmund Freud, has applied his recently discovered talking cure to a woman afflicted with multiple symptoms of hysteria. ![]()
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