Beat Mango
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My therapist told me about this book she was reading called The Schopenhauer Cure. It's written by a psychotherapist called Irving Yalom who is interestedin exploring the link between philosophy and therapy. In this book, the main character is supposed to be a modern image of Arthur Schopenhauer: aloof, hyperintellectual and disengaged from the social world (sound familiar?). For someone like me, who has turned to philosophy as a kind of therapy, a means to improve the quality of life, this is obviously a very intriguing topic.
For anyone else who's turned to philosophy as therapy, or for someone who's sought to overcome their nihilistic, ascetic or schizoidal tendencies, I'd be interested to hear what you think of this book, which does attempt to provide a solution to these. It's also just interesting as a fan of Schopenhauer, half the book is a biography of him intertwined with the rest of the story.
For anyone else who's turned to philosophy as therapy, or for someone who's sought to overcome their nihilistic, ascetic or schizoidal tendencies, I'd be interested to hear what you think of this book, which does attempt to provide a solution to these. It's also just interesting as a fan of Schopenhauer, half the book is a biography of him intertwined with the rest of the story.