The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Stephen Grosz

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In a series of short, vivid, dramatic stories, using psychoanalytic insight, ‘The Examined Life’ uncovers the extraordinary hidden feelings behind apparently ordinary behaviour.

ISBN: 9780099549031 Category:

Description

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER**

This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates’ statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.

These are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he’s dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.

‘A captivating journey… These are universal themes, insights into an emotional world we inhabit, often with equal difficulty. A wonderful book’ Sunday Times

Additional information

Weight 0.18 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xii, 225

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

150.195 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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