The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Longlisted for the 2013 Guardian first book award, The Examined Life is inspired by the author’s twenty-five years as a practicing psychoanalyst. Grosz uses 30 case studies from his consulting room to reveal how the art of insight can turn stories about our everyday lives into something illuminating and transformative.

 

From Amanda, who imagines terrorists in her flat, to Graham, who bores for England, Grosz’s studies are by definition individual in nature, but the learnings he draws from them can apply to us all. The Examined Life is the perfect New Year read for anyone who wishes to understand themselves, and others, better in 2014.