The Schopenhauer Cure: A Psychological and Literary Novel about Group Therapy by Irvin Yalom

Harper, 2006. Trade paperback. Minor edge wear. VG. 

From the internationally bestselling author of Love's
Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept, comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling
to heal pain and change lives.

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German
philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer -- and is, himself, a philosophical counselor in
training.

Philip's dour, misanthropic stance compels Julius to invite Philip to join his intensive therapy group in exchange for tutoring on Schopenhauer. But with mere months left, life may be far too short to help Philip or to compete with him for the hearts and minds of
the group members. And then again, it might be just long enough.