Lexington Books
Pages: 258
•
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-2867-2 • Hardback • April 2016 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-4985-2868-9 • eBook • April 2016 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
Uri Wernik is senior clinical and medical psychologist with his own private practice.
Introduction
Part I: Psychology
Chapter 1: The Queen of Science
Chapter 2: Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 3: Personality Psychology
Chapter 4: Psychology of Morality
Chapter 5: Social Psychology
Part II: Psychotherapy
Chapter 6: The Path of Wisdom
Chapter 7: Healing the Soul
Chapter 8: Self Creating
Conclusion
Index
About the Author
Uri Wernik's fascinating account demonstrates once again not only the complex and controversial richness of Nietzsche's oeuvre but also its virtually limitless capacity for appropriation. In Wernik's psychological take, Nietzsche is transformed into an essentially non-Freudian, health-bestowing ‘doctor of the soul.’
— Steven E. Aschheim, author of the The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990
Uri Wernik has written a wonderful book expressing Nietzsche’s views on all matters of interest to psychologists and therapists. I found more wisdom in this book than in any book I've read in decades. No better presentation of Nietzsche's radical thoughts on human consciousness, action, self-development, and health (not mental health, but organic health) has been written. Any reader who doesn't come away with a dozen fresh ideas for improved therapy and an improved life has either already discovered Nietzsche, or is dead.
— George Cockroft, aka Luke Rhinehart, author of The Dice Man and nine other books
Uri Wernik captures your mind and heart in his remarkably captivating and loving writing about Nietzsche. He is outstanding in developing Nietzsche’s largely ignored, but nonetheless monumental, psychology. Personally, I both agree with and am critical of much of Nietzsche’s profound thinking, but Wernik leaves respectable room when he writes: ‘“Nietzsche persons” are graduates of the best school of suspicion: they are skeptics . . . “Nietzsche persons” are not really “Nietzsche persons”. . . being independently-minded . . . they cannot agree with everything he wrote. . . . [T]hey can still admire Nietzsche, despite some of his problematic ideas, which they tragically disregard and forgive out of gratitude and compassion.’ Wernik on Nietzsche is a tour de force.
— Israel W. Charny, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide