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Grosz is a superb storyteller and tells lots of his patients stories with sensitivity, but also with great acuity. In examined life, filmmaker astra taylor accompanies some of todays most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, the examined life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences. The examined life describes psychoanalysiss power the. The examined life by stephen grosz stephen grosz has been a psychoanalyst for the past 25 years and spent more than 50,000 hours with patients spanning children, adolescents, adults. Dec 20, 2012 i think the examined life might be another such, albeit for quite different reasons. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. In his work as a practicing psychoanalyst, stephen grosz has spent the last twentyfive years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behavior. Instead, the examined life is a short examination on the human condition.
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