The Examined Life

An audacious journey of discovery and connection. Drawing on his 25 years of psychiatric practice, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz has honed the ability to cut through to the truth in every situation, no matter how painful or absurd, and in The Examined Life he applies this skill to himself. Working with patients struggling with love, sex and death, he describes with uncanny insight how we fashion our lives from a medley of letters and images that we constantly create for ourselves - some truthful, some misleading and some downright delusional. Evocative yet rigorous, disturbing yet lively, Grosz offers a master class in self-understanding. This is the book for anyone who's ever wondered about themselves or another.