The examined life
Subtitle: how we lose and find ourselves
By: Stephen Grosz
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780701185350; 9780701188467
Subjects: Case studies; Psychoanalysis; Psychology
Description: In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behaviour. The Examined Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight, without the jargon.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Beginnings; title: How we can be possessed by a story that cannot be told; title: On laughter; title: How praise can cause a loss of confidence; title: The gift of pain; title: A safe house; title: Telling Lies; title: On secrets; title: On not being in a couple; title: A passion for ignorance; title: On intimacy; title: The bigger the front; title: Loving; title: At home; title: How paranoia can relieve suffering and prevent a catastrophe; title: On the recovery of lost feelings; title: Why parents envy their children; title: On wanting the impossible; title: On hate; title: How lovesickness keeps us from love; title: Changing; title: How a fear of loss can cause us to lose everything; title: How negativity prevents our surrender to love; title: On losing a wallet; title: A change in the family; title: Why we lurch from crisis to crisis; title: On being boring; title: On mourning the future; title: How anger can keep us from sadness; title: On being a patient; title: Going back; title: On bearing death; title: Leaving; title: Through silence; title: On closure; title: On waking from a dream.