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How we lose and find ourselves and millions of other books are available for instant access. The examined life is a 20 collection of essays by practising psychoanalyst stephen grosz, which is an attempt to distil over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight, without the jargon. Sunday times besteller this book is about learning to live. Peter marinker in a series of short, vivid, dramatic stories, using psychoanalytic insight, the examined life uncovers the extraordinary hidden feelings behind apparently ordinary behaviour.
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