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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

by Stephen Grosz

Stories and self-understanding in the consulting room

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Stories and self-understanding in the consulting room

Stephen Grosz brings together short, personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, using them to explore how people make stories of their lives. The collection connects psychoanalytic work with experiences that can be difficult to explain, and considers how insight might change a person’s understanding of themselves and their relationships. Its subject is not psychoanalysis in the abstract alone: the book presents it through individual encounters and the human questions they raise about love, identity, and finding one’s way back to oneself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
  • Readers drawn to short accounts centered on personal encounters
  • Readers interested in how people interpret their lives and relationships

Themes

PsychoanalysisSelf-understandingStorytelling and identityLove and relationships

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Book overview

We are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense of our lives. A moving collection of short, personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding, and human of experiences. Ultimately, these stories show us not only how we love ourselves but how we might find ourselves.

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