Examined Life How We Lose & Find Ourselves

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Longlisted for the Plt;iPgt;Guardian Plt;/iPgt;first book award, a Plt;iPgt;Sunday Times Plt;/iPgt;bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week. P#39;MarvellousP#39; (Plt;iPgt;The TimesPlt;/iPgt;), P#39;ExcellentP#39; (Plt;iPgt;Guardian), Plt;/iPgt;P#39;Completely magicalP#39; (Plt;iPgt;Mail on SundayPlt;/iPgt;)

Plt;bPgt;**Plt;iPgt;SUNDAY TIMESPlt;/iPgt; BESTELLER**Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;This book is about learning to live.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Echoing SocratesP#39; 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.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;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 heP#39;s dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;This moving book will make the reader think of FreudP#39;s keenly observed and literary-minded case studies...piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver SacksP#39; Plt;iPgt;New York TimesPlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#39;Grosz is a superb storyteller and tells lots of his patientsP#39; stories with sensitivity, but also with great acuity. You might keep thinking you recognise things about people you knowP#39; Plt;iPgt;Evening StandardPlt;/iPgt;.Plt;/bPgt;

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780099549031
Published: January 2014

Number of pages: 240
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 16 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing