Bruce, Michael. Review of Michael Ure's NIETZSCHE'S THERAPY." MOR September 30, 2008.

Ure, Michael. Nietzsche's Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. Michael Ure's new text contributes to the competitive field of Nietzsche scholarship. The aim of the book is well defined and not overly ambitious. Ure investigates the role of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's middle period that spans from Human, All Too Human to the first three quarters of The Gay Science. In this carved out space, Ure shows how Nietzsche's thought shifts from his earlier work, The Birth of Tragedy, to his "free spirit trilogy." Critiquing his own pessimism and metaphysical inheritance from Schopenhauer, Nietzsche's middle texts are concerned with self-cultivation. Ure is able to bring this thematic into dialogue with many other figures, namely, Nehamas, Freud, Foucault, Rousseau, Seneca and the stoic tradition, and more. At less than three hundred pages it is impressive how many connections are linked from within the philosophical tradition and also the psychoanalytic field. . . . Read the rest here: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4503.