Author | Stephen Grosz |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Subject | Psychology |
Published | 2013 (Chatto & Windus) |
Media type | |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN | 978-0701185350 |
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The Examined Life is a 2013 collection of essays by practising psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, which is an attempt to 'distil over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight, without the jargon.' The book was serialised as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012, and spent 10 weeks on the Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list. It has been translated into Dutch, Italian, German, Portuguese and Korean, and will be published in a further 14 languages including Spanish, Chinese and Hebrew.[1] In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised the book as “an insightful and beautifully written… a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks[2]”
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- ^Rogers, Coleridge & White: RightsArchived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Listening for Clues to Mind’s Mysteries' by Michiko Kakutani July 8, 2013
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An extraordinary book for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our lives
We are all storytellers—we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales; there must be someone to listen.
In his work as a practicing psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behavior. The Examined Life distills more than fifty thousand hours of conversation into pure psychological insight without the jargon.
This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening, and understanding. Its aphoristic and elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness. They also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the analyst at work and show how lessons learned in the consulting room can reveal as much to the analyst as to the patient.
These are stories about our everyday lives; they are about the people we love and the lies we tell, the changes we bear and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but also how we might find ourselves.
Publication Details
- Publisher:
- Blackstone Publishing
- Imprint:
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC
- Edition:
- Unabridged
- Publication Date:
- 2013
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Stephen Grosz (Author)
Stephen Grosz isa practicing psychoanalyst who has worked with patients for more thantwenty-five years. Born in America and educated at the University of California,Berkeley, and at Oxford University, he lives in London. A Sunday Times bestsell...