The Examined Life How We Lose and Find Ourselves

** 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

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Grosz, Grosz Stephen
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.01.2014
• Subject: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis
• EAN: 9780099549031
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954903-1
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 1.5 cm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Mental Health, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, Self help, motivational books, Health psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Atomic Habits, Emotional Intelligence, Biography and non-fiction prose, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, kindle deals, mental health books, self help books, self improvement books, self help books for men, inspirational books, self help books for women, self development books, psychology book, self development books for women, personal development books, best selling self improvement books, inspirational gifts for women, wellbeing gifts, thinking fast and slow, mindset books, best self help books, wellbeing books, confidence books