The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz (Paperback, 2014)

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Longlisted for the Guardian first book award, a Sunday Times bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Marvellous' (The Times), 'Excellent' (Guardian), 'Completely magical' (Mail on Sunday) **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. 'This moving book will make the reader think of Freud's keenly observed and literary-minded case studies.piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' New York Times '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 know' Evening Standard.

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099549031
eBay Product ID (ePID)176831130

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Book TitleThe Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
AuthorStephen Grosz
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Psychology
Publication Year2014
Number of Pages240 Pages

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Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight170g

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Title_AuthorStephen Grosz
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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