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I‘m a sucker for psychoanalysis after reading the amazing “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone”. While this is a very different book, I still found some interesting points and connections with behaviors and feelings. Written by a British psychoanalyst, this covers broad topics with short stories on patients during his career. A deeper dive into the individuals‘ may have been more meaningful, and some of the “revelations” were a stretch for me.

We make sense of our lives by telling our stories. Using aggressive jokes to get revenge and diffuse hurt. Attentiveness more important than praise, activity should not be done to get praise, but have an end in itself. Feeling something - pain - is a means of knowing what hurts us and why.

Not sure I learned anything but the stories were interesting.

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Really enjoyed this! Well written, felt insightful without being either too academic or too self helpy.

Taking this audiobook out for a drive this morning.

"There cannot be change without loss" THE EXAMINED LIFE by Stephen Grosz ? Great read about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief we go thorough #bookstagram #theexaminedlife #books

This audiobook is vastly enhancing my world at the moment.

I'm finding this book so interesting and moving and a lot of the cases really struck a chord with me.
I particularly like the word captious :Apt to notice and make much of trivial faults. Fault-finding. Difficult to please

I expected something different when I started this book. It is more short vignettes of conversations with patients than grand reflections on the human psychological state. At times I felt like a voyeur reading people's private, intimate thoughts. But Grosz has moments of brilliance that make it worth reading. References to Dinesen, Dickens, and Melville don't hurt either.

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Feels.

Not for me.....read why at karenmartinreads.blogspot.co.uk

My scepticism probably warrants psychoanalysis!