`I want to change, but not if it means changing,' a patient once said to me in complete innocenceWhat do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour?
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 s
A psychoanalyst draws upon his twenty-year career to describe the hidden motivations that shape our actions, both ordinary and extraordinary, throughout our lives in an effort to understand a better p
'This book is about change.'We are all storytellers – we make 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 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.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 him as to the patient.These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves
An extraordinarybook for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our livesWe are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense ofour lives. But it is not enough to tell tales; the
An extraordinarybook for anyone eager to understand the hidden motives that shape our livesWe are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense ofour lives. But it is not enough to tell tales; the
