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how we lose and find ourselves

"The examined life" was published by Chatto & Windus in 2013 - London, it has 225 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: The examined life
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 225
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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  • Publish Location: London

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  • Pagination: xii, 225 pages

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"The examined life" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Machine generated contents note: Beginnings
  • 2- How we can be possessed by a story that cannot be told
  • 3- On laughter
  • 4- How praise can cause a loss of confidence
  • 5- The gift of pain
  • 6- A safe house
  • 7- Telling Lies
  • 8- On secrets
  • 9- On not being in a couple
  • 10- A passion for ignorance
  • 11- On intimacy
  • 12- The bigger the front
  • 13- Loving
  • 14- At home
  • 15- How paranoia can relieve suffering and prevent a catastrophe
  • 16- On the recovery of lost feelings
  • 17- Why parents envy their children
  • 18- On wanting the impossible
  • 19- On hate
  • 20- How lovesickness keeps us from love
  • 21- Changing
  • 22- How a fear of loss can cause us to lose everything
  • 23- How negativity prevents our surrender to love
  • 24- On losing a wallet
  • 25- A change in the family
  • 26- Why we lurch from crisis to crisis
  • 27- On being boring
  • 28- On mourning the future
  • 29- How anger can keep us from sadness
  • 30- On being a patient
  • 31- Going back
  • 32- On bearing death
  • 33- Leaving
  • 34- Through silence
  • 35- On closure
  • 36- On waking from a dream.

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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.

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