Stephen grosz born 1952 is a psychoanalyst and author born in indiana and educated at the university of california, berkeley and balliol college, oxford, grosz teaches clinical technique at the institute of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory at university college london. How we lose and find ourselves tells stories of everyday people, with. How we lose and find ourselves by stephen grosz isbn. He specialises in public and administrative law and. How we lose and find ourselves public library, psychoanalyst and university college london professor stephen grosz builds on more than 50,000 hours of conversation from his quartercentury experience as a practicing psychoanalyst to explore the machinery of our inner life, with insights that are invariably profound and. Jul 09, 20 the examined life, by stephen grosz, describes the process of psychoanalysis and how the ways people connect the past, present and future reflect their capacity to change. Sunday times bestellerthis book is about learning to live. Stephen grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst he has worked with patients for more than twentyfive years. The examined life by stephen grosz do no harm by henry marsh dont drop the coffin. This is an extract from stephen groszs the examined life. This examination, i presume, is how grosz sees his profession as a psychoanalyst.
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