Josef Breuer was a highly regarded physician with a thriving practice in Vienna. Nearly 15 years older, Breuer had befriended Freud when Freud was still a student, lent him money, and shared his ...

In his novel When Nietzsche Wept, he imagined a complex psychotherapeutic relationship between the despairing philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Josef Breuer, who was a mentor of Sigmund Freud ...