Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst - he has worked with patients for more than twenty-five years. Born in America, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, and now lives in London. The Examined Life has been translated into more than twenty languages and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. www.stephengrosz.com
I was enthralled. profound and moving, packed large ideas into a slim volume -- Lucy Lethbridge Observer Books of the Year With deceptive simplicity and gentle wisdom, Grosz teases out a lesson or chases down a fugitive insight. I have distrusted psychoanalysis for years, but I would leap onto Grosz's couch -- James McConnachie The Sunday Times Books of the Year Grosz's vignettes are so brilliantly put together that they read like pieces of bare, illuminating fiction... utterly captivating -- Robert Collins Sunday Times Marvellous. After reading [Grosz's] absorbing accounts of his patients' journeys you might feel that The Examined Life ought to be given out free at birth -- Melissa Katsoulis The Times Crystal-clear and completely magical.The Examined Life is a book full of troubles, but also of wonders -- Craig Brown Mail on Sunday