Catalog
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
by Stephen Grosz
🧠Psychology~240 pages
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A psychoanalyst distils twenty-five years of practice into a series of very short true cases: a man who cannot stop lying, a child who refuses to speak, a woman whose praise feels like punishment. Each piece begins with an ordinary encounter and follows it until something hidden surfaces, showing how people construct stories about themselves and how those stories can trap them. The tone is calm, precise and unsentimental, closer to literature than to clinical writing, and the chapters are brief enough to read in a spare ten minutes. A quiet, humane introduction to how the consulting room works.
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