Full name: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Author: Stephen Grosz Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Self help, Memoirs, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393349320 0393349322

Echoing Socrates' time-honoured statement that the unexamined life is not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws short, vivid stories from his 25-five-year practice in order to track the collaborative journey of therapist and patient as they uncover the hidden feelings behind ordinary behaviour. These beautifully rendered tales illuminate the fundamental pathways of life from birth to death. A woman finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip; a young man loses his wallet. We learn, too, from more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer, the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he's dying of cancer. The stories invite compassionate understanding, suggesting answers to the questions that compel and disturb us most about love and loss, parents and children, work and change. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do. Similar books: Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud Mindwise by Nicholas Epley The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense by Anna Freud Our Inner Conflicts by Karen Horney Psychoanalysis by Janet Malcolm The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris Three Case Histories by Sigmund Freud 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adrian Furnham The Mask of Sanity by Hervey M. Cleckley Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored by Adam Phillips The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud Me, Myself, and Us by Brian R. Little Introducing Psychology by Nigel Benson Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi