The Examined Life - How We Lose and Find Ourselves

AuthorStephen Grosz
Rating
Price1695

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER**This book is about learning to live.Echoing Socratesâ€™ 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.â€˜This moving book will make the reader think of Freudâ€™s keenly observed and literary-minded case studiesâ€¦piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacksâ€™ New York Timesâ€˜Grosz is a superb storyteller and tells lots of his patients' stories with sensitivity, but also with great acuity. You might keep thinking you recognise things about people you knowâ€™ Evening Standard.

Publisher Random House UK
Publication Date 02/01/2014
Number of Pages 240
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9780099549031
Category Fiction , Non Fiction , Biographics , Memoirs

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