Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
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**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
About the Author
About the Author
STEPHEN GROSZ was born in Indiana and educated at Berkeley and Oxford. For the past 25 years he has worked as a psychoanalyst. He teaches clinical technique at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Theory at University College London. His stories have appeared in the "Financial Times" and "Granta." He lives in London.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Impossible to put down...it will leave you wiser about humanity than you were when you picked it up.--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
Shares the best literary qualities of Freud's most persuasive work. It is...an insightful and beautifully written book...a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks. [A] deeply affecting book.--Michiko Kakutani "New York Times"
Magnetically compelling...The result is a shared sense of humanity, understanding and even hope.--Kate Tuttle "Boston Globe"
Beautifully written...The insights here will cut close to the bone.--Dinah Loon "Nature"
A peek into the human psyche...Marked by a clear absence of technical jargon...An immensely personal work, and something much more than just a legacy of advice.--Lucy Scholes "Daily Beast"
Grosz's vignettes are so brilliantly put together that they read like pieces of bare, illuminating fiction...utterly captivating.--Robert Collins "Sunday Times"
By turns edifying and moving. Grosz offers astute insights into the perplexities of everyday life.--Trisha Andres "Financial Times"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub date:
2014-05-12
Length:
240 pages
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