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This text takes up the story recounted by the writer and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom in “The Schopenhauer Cure” (2005). Here, a famous American psychiatrist suffering from an incurable cancer looks through the files covering his thirty-year career, wondering whether he has really helped his patients. Doing so he comes across a “first rate failure” experienced twenty-five years ago with a good looking but unsympathetic, cold, manipulative, asocial sexual predator with whom he became fully involved for three years without seeing the slightest improvement. That patient had suddenly brought an end to the therapy explaining that he had got nothing out of it. The therapist then decided to find him again and their second encounter led to a real thriller where the former became the one seeking help. Meanwhile, the cynical patient reckoned on taking full advantage, seeking to become a therapist with the sole motivation of earning a good living.