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The examined life : how we lose and find ourselves / Stephen Grosz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grosz, Stephen, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychology.
- Psychoanalysis--Case studies.
- Psychology--Case studies.
- psychoanalysis.
- psychology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychology.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 225 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
- Summary:
- An easy to understand overview of the process of psychoanalysis with illustrative examples.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Beginnings
- How we can be possessed by a story that cannot be told
- On laughter
- How praise can cause a loss of confidence
- The gift of pain
- A safe house
- Telling Lies
- On secrets
- On not being in a couple
- A passion for ignorance
- On intimacy
- The bigger the front
- Loving
- At home
- How paranoia can relieve suffering and prevent a catastrophe
- On the recovery of lost feelings
- Why parents envy their children
- On wanting the impossible
- On hate
- How lovesickness keeps us from love
- Changing
- How a fear of loss can cause us to lose everything
- How negativity prevents our surrender to love
- On losing a wallet
- A change in the family
- Why we lurch from crisis to crisis
- On being boring
- On mourning the future
- How anger can keep us from sadness
- On being a patient
- Going back
- On bearing death
- Leaving
- Through silence
- On closure
- On waking from a dream.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-221).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393349320
- 0393349322
- OCLC:
- 878077955
- Publisher Number:
- 99991332623
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