The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Irvin D. Yalom

Although it would be easy for readers to think that this book is about philosophy, it is more about the human condition and how we want to believe in something. The novel begins with a major character, Dr. Henry Schopenhauer, who becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of Plato and that philosophy must follow him wherever he goes.

Though the world has changed, a man remains. He is at once an outsider and a prisoner of time. His name is Schopenhauer.

Professor Hegel is an eminent philosopher known for his work on dialectics. His student Schopenhauer, however, has always been at odds with him. He's a nihilist and lives in squalor while Hegel maintains a palatial estate. But when Hegel dies and leaves the very deed to his beloved home in Schopenhauer's name, he decides it's time to leave town - to get away from himself and start fresh.

Does it seem strange that someone would listen to an audiobook of a book they've already read? Often, people who love the book get impatient waiting for the sequel. Acting as if you haven't read the book can help ward off spoilers. The Schopenhauer Cure is one of those books that are hard to wait for because so much happened and it was such a roller coaster ride of emotions. I am so happy that I decided to listen to this audiobook instead of read it again because something new is happening with every chapter.

In this hilarious and witty novel, a medical intern named Jack discovers that his plan to become an ob-gyn is actually going to be made possible by an unorthodox conversation with the author of "The Schopenhauer Cure," Irvin D. Yalom, who is also dying. Jack's ob-gyn mentor, Dr. Weiss, takes on the task of applying Yalom's teachings to Jack's life as they try to understand what makes people happy in their latter years. The Schopenhauer Cure will have you laughing from beginning to end as it challenges your ideas about what leads happiness

From the author of the international best seller, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, comes a novel about two men of different backgrounds. Both are married with children, in their late thirties, and have been practicing medicine and psychotherapy for years. One is an old-fashioned Freudian therapist; the other, Harald Schultz's predecessor at Vienna General Hospital, is a Schopenhauerian who believes that we are all just cogs in a machine. After a chance meeting on an airplane, life changes for both men as they help each other through difficult times.