The Examined Life

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we're loving and reviews from our contributors. The Examined Life By Stephen Grosz, recounts the psychoanalyst experience of over 25 years and crafts a collection of beautifully told stories that illuminate the human experience.

What We Say: "An Examined Life is a series of selected case histories of patients that psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz has accumulated over 25 years in practice. Profound and at various times funny and heartbreaking, these read like beautiful essays on mental health and the human condition. Even though they are deeply individual stories, through his lens they become relatable and informative as he extracts the wider meaning behind the behaviour. Beautiful and unputdownable." – Stella Fabinyi

What They Say: "The success of The Examined Life by the psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz has, I think, relatively little to do with his clinical know-how; it rests, as Freud's did, on his story-telling abilities." – Rachel Cooke

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Stella Fabinyi is Managing Director at Service95