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The Examined Life
- How We Lose and Find Ourselves
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
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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.
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'A captivating journey... These are universal themes, insights into an emotional world we inhabit, often with equal difficulty. A wonderful book.' (Sunday Times)
'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 success of The Examined Life by the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz has, I think, relatively little to do with his clinical know-how; it rests, as Freud's did, on his story-telling abilities.' (Rachel Cooke)
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- Kyra Phillips
- 17-11-23
Helped me learn some things about myself
The author spoke about many patients that I felt I could relate to, there are a lot of assumptions made but regardless of if they are true or not, they are useful to reflect on. Its soothing the read that time changes perspective and I felt like a message from the author was that we are all doing our best with what we have now. Really enjoyed this book
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- JG
- 07-12-23
Bitesize case studies for students of counselling
This book offers a great insight into psychodynamic theory in practice and I highly recommend it to fellow students of counselling and psychotherapy. The bureaux cases studies make this a really accessible book and easy to fit into your reading/study schedule. It’s also really relatable and I gained insights into myself along the way.
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- Meeplin Piper
- 18-03-24
Fascinating for anyone who’s interested in psychoanalysis
This is not a self-help book and that’s a great thing. You won’t find shortcuts or advice so that you don’t have to deal with going to therapy yourself. It’s an interesting bunch of short stories of cases that are both entertaining and fascinating.
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- Ronan McCloskey
- 03-11-24
Excellent. Loved it.
Loved it. Could start it all over again. Really insightful stories / cases about the human condition.
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