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The Examined Life
Stephen Grosz
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Description for The Examined Life
paperback. Reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences. This title includes 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174. From the library of Ivor Browne. Very good copy showing minor age and wear. Gift inscription to half title
**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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099549031
SKU
KMK0025983
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Stephen Grosz
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Examined Life
I was enthralled… profound and moving, packed large ideas into a slim volume
Lucy Lethbridge
Observer Books of the Year
With deceptive simplicity and gentle wisdom, Grosz teases out a lesson or chases down a fugitive insight. I have distrusted psychoanalysis for years, but I would leap onto Grosz’s couch
James McConnachie
The Sunday Times ... Read more
Lucy Lethbridge
Observer Books of the Year
With deceptive simplicity and gentle wisdom, Grosz teases out a lesson or chases down a fugitive insight. I have distrusted psychoanalysis for years, but I would leap onto Grosz’s couch
James McConnachie
The Sunday Times ... Read more