When Nietzsche Cries

Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, who believes that each patient's story is unique and that different therapies should be applied for each, blends fiction and reality in his novel When Nietzsche Cried, which was first published in 1992 and is widely read and loved all over the world, and which also bears traces of his own life story. While telling an unforgettable story about the healing power of friendship, Yalom welcomes his readers to the 19th century Vienna, when the birth pains of psychoanalysis began and to the intellectual environment of those years. One day, the path of Friedrich Nietzsche, an extremely poor philosopher who has only published two books and whom no one knows, intersects with Josef Breuer, a rich and respected character who managed to become the doctor of many artists and thinkers while he was still in the prime of his youth. Nietzsche's friend, Lou Salomé, a young and beautiful woman, has an undeniably large share in this. She thinks that no one other than Breuer can cure Nietzsche's loneliness, despair and illnesses. And he is right. But it's not that easy. Nietzsche not only does not accept help, but also denies that he is sick. Although the process takes a difficult road, their journey progresses slowly with "talking therapies". Not only Nietzsche but also Breuer finds solace in these sessions. Only after confronting his demonic aspects can the talented doctor find the power to heal his patient. During this time, Breuer frequently met with his close friend and student Sigmund Freud and shared the treatment methods and process he applied. In these "talk therapy" sessions, where you witness Nietzsche combining his thoughts with psychoanalysis, you will both engage in deep questioning about life and confront yourself. This novel of thought, which was first published in Turkish in 1996 and has taken its readers on a journey of questioning the human mind and life ever since, meets its readers again, this time in Turkish by academician and translator Esra Birkan. IRVIN D. YALOM: He was born in Washington in 1931, as the child of a family that emigrated to the USA from a small village near Russia's Polish border shortly after the First World War. While his family was trying to survive in financial difficulties, he turned to books. He grew up in a poor neighborhood - his only solace was books - especially fiction, which presented him with a happier world than reality. The thought that writing a novel was the best thing a person could do was settled in his mind at a young age, and he never gave up this thought again. In the ghetto life of those days, there were not many career options for young people. Yalom's peers were either going to medical school or starting business alongside their fathers. He felt that going to the Faculty of Medicine would bring him closer to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. That's why he chose medicine as a profession and psychiatry as his specialty. Advertising Mediums Used: Social Media and Newspapers/Magazines