guidance and helped translate many of the Schopenhauer

epigrams preceding each chapter into English that more

reflects Schopenhauer`s powerful and lucid prose.

In this work, as in all others, my wife, Marilyn,

served as a pillar of support and love.

Many fine books guided me in my writing. By far, I

am most heavily indebted to Rudiger Safranski`s

magnificent biography,Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of

Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1989) and grateful

to him for his generous consultation in our long

conversation in a Berlin cafГ©. The idea of bibliotherapy—

curing oneself through reading the entire corpus of

philosophy—comes from Bryan Magee`s excellent

book,Confessions of a Philosopher (New York: Modern

Library, 1999). Other works that informed me were Bryan

Magee`sThe Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1983; revised 1997; John E.

Atwell`sSchopenhauer: The Human Character

(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990); Christopher

Janeway`sSchopenhauer (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford Univ.

Press, 1994); Ben–Ami Scharfstein`sThe Philosophers:

Their Lives and the Nature of their Thought (New York:

Oxford University Press, 1989); Patrick

Gardiner`sSchopenhauer (Saint Augustine`s Press, 1997);

Edgar Saltus`sThe Philosophy of Disenchantment (New

York: Peter Eckler Publishing Co., 1885); Christopher

Janeway`sThe Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer

(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999);

Michael Tanner`sSchopenhauer (New York: Routledge,

1999); Frederick Copleston`sArthur Schopenhauer:

Philosopher of Pessimism (Andover, UK: Chapel River

Press, 1946); Alain de Botton`sThe Consolations of

Philosophy (New York: Vintage, 2001); Peter

Raabe`sPhilosophical Counseling (Westport, Conn.:

Praeger); Shlomit C. Schuster`sPhilosophy Practice: An

Alternative to Counseling and Psychotherapy (Westport,

Conn.: Praeger, 1999); Lou Marinoff`sPlato Not Prozac

(New York: HarperCollins, 1999); Pierre Hadot and Arnold

I. Davidson, eds.,Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual

Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (Michael Chase,

trans., New Haven: Blackwell, 1995); Martha

Nussbaum`sThe Therapy of Desire (Princeton, N.J.:

Princeton Univ. Press, 1994); Alex Howard`sPhilosophy

for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to

Postmodernism (London: Macmillan, 2000).

About the Author

IRVIN D. YALOM is the bestselling author ofLove`s

Executioner, Momma and the Meaning of Life, andThe Gift

of Therapy, as well as several classic textbooks on

psychotherapy, including the monumental work that has

long been the standard text in the field,The Theory and

Practice of Group Psychotherapy.

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Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

The Yalom Reader

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Credits

Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich

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THE SCHOPENHAUER CURE.Copyright В© 2005 by Irvin D.

Yalom. All rights reserved under International and Pan–American Copyright Conventions.

Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data

Yalom, Irvin.

The Schopenhauer cure: a novel / Irvin D. Yalom.—1st

ed. p. cm.

ISBN 0–06–621441–6

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