{"product_id":"9780099549031-the-examined-life","title":"The Examined Life","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow We Lose and Find Ourselves\u003cbr\u003eReveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences. This title includes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is about learning to live.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEchoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he's dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A captivating journey. These are universal themes, insights into an emotional world we inhabit, often with equal difficulty. A wonderful book' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Stephen Grosz , an analyst with more than 40 years in practice, is one of the best at writing about [psychoanalysis]’\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451337290102,"sku":"9780099549031","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32279460.jpg?v=1760461930","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099549031-the-examined-life","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}