Julius Hertzfeld is a distinguished psychotherapist with an impressive career, but when suddenly confronted with his own mortality, his life and work seem meaningless. Has he really made a difference to the lives of his patients? And what about those he's failed, what has happened to them? Trying to reconcile his past places him on collision course with his greatest failure - a handsome but arrogant sex addict with a taste for obscure philosophy. In The Schopenhauer Cure, Irvin Yalom elegantly weaves the true story of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's psychological life throughout the narrative, knitting together fact and fiction to form a compulsively readable tale.