Friedrich Nietzsche’s Scream Therapy
Before scream therapy became a 20th-century psychological fad, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche practiced it himself—alone in the Swiss Alps. During solitary walks, he’d suddenly let out primal screams into the mountain air, claiming it helped him purge dark thoughts and re-align his soul with nature’s chaos.
Locals grew accustomed to his echoing cries from hilltops, chalking it up to the eccentricities of a “mad thinker.” But Nietzsche believed the voice was an extension of willpower. Screaming, to him, was like lightning from a storm—necessary to disrupt the stale skies of the mind. Whether madness or method, it’s clear his thoughts weren’t the only things erupting.
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