The Examined Life: How We Lose And Find Ourselves

Author: Stephen Grosz

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780099549031
  • : Random House UK
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.177
  • : February 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : 22.99
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  • : Stephen Grosz
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Description

A Sunday Times bestseller
 
Longlisted for the Guardian first book award
 
A Radio 4 Book of the Week
 
This book is about learning to live.
 
In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences.
 
These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too.

Author description

Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst - he has worked with patients for more than twenty-five years. Born in America, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, and now lives in London. The Examined Life has been translated into more than twenty languages and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. www.stephengrosz.com