We are all storytellers we create stories to make sense of our lives.
Ultimately, they show us not only how we Lose Ourselves but also how we might Find ourselves.".
These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies we tell, the changes we bear and the grief.
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 the analyst as to the patient.
Its aphoristic and elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness.
This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening, and understanding.
The Examined Life distils more than 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight without the jargon.
In his work as a practicing psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behavior.
There must be someone to listen.
But it is not enough to tell tales.
We are all storytellers we create stories to make sense of our lives
