The Examined Life： How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Author： Stephen Grosz Publisher： WW Norton Co； Reprint edition

We are all storytellers we create stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a practicing psychoanalyst， Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behavior. The Examined Life distils more than 50，000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight without the jargon. This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process： talking， listening， and understanding. Its aphoristic and elegant stories teach us a new kind of attentiveness. They also unveil a delicate self-portrait of the analyst at work and show how lessons learned in the consulting room can reveal as much to the analyst as to the patient. These are stories about our everyday lives： they are about the people we love and the lies we tell， the changes we bear and the grief. Ultimately， they show us not only how we lose ourselves but also how we might find ourselves.

在作為職業(yè)心理分析學(xué)家的生涯中，斯蒂芬·格羅斯花了25年的時間來發(fā)掘最令人困惑的行為背后隱藏的情感。該書將超過50，000小時的對話提煉成純粹的不含行業(yè)術(shù)語的心理洞察。這本非凡的書只關(guān)乎于一個普通的過程：訴說、傾聽與理解。書中都是我們?nèi)粘Ｉ钪械墓适拢宏P(guān)于我們愛著的人，我們?nèi)龅闹e，我們承受的改變與悲傷。最后，他們不僅告訴我們是如何迷失了自己，也告訴我們怎樣才可能找回自己。