The Examined Life
by Stephen Grosz
A psychoanalyst's short case stories about how we lose and find ourselves: lying, loving, changing, leaving. Spare, literary and quietly profound.
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you want insight into human behavior through beautifully told cases.
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Three things you will actually use
- We repeat what we cannot speak.
- Change is loss before gain.
- Attention is the cure.
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Spare, profound cases.
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