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Therapy

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875466

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 9mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £3.50

Therapy

‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,' a patient once said to me in complete innocence

What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years’ experience as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz ushers the reader through the door of his consulting room and into the minds of his patients. In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and in doing so, understand a little more about what it is to be human.

Selected from The Examined Life.

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Recovery by Helen Macdonald
Family by Mark Haddon

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784875466

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 9mm x 110mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £3.50

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About the Author

Stephen Grosz

Stephen Grosz was born in Indiana and educated at Berkeley and Oxford. For the past twenty-five years he has worked as a psychoanalyst. He teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the Psychoanalytic Unit at University College London. His stories have appeared in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine and Granta. He lives in London.

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