Die Schopenhauer-Kur

From the author of the bestseller "The Red Couch." Julius Hertzfeldt is 65 and a renowned psychoanalyst when he becomes seriously ill. It's time to confront some important questions. Was his work truly meaningful? He recalls a case in which he failed miserably: Philip Slate, whom he once treated for his sex addiction. Slate is still as arrogant and self-centered as ever, yet he claims to have healed himself - with the help of reading Arthur Schopenhauer.