About the book
Over twenty-five years of psychoanalytic practice, Stephen Grosz has logged more than 50,000 hours of talk with patients, and he distills that work into short essays free of jargon. The pieces draw on cases from the consulting room and look for the hidden feelings behind baffling behavior. Their subjects are everyday ones: love, lying, change and grief. Grosz also sketches himself at work, showing that a session can teach the analyst as much as the patient. BBC Radio 4 serialised it as Book of the Week, and it spent ten weeks on the Sunday Times nonfiction best seller list. Published in 2013, it was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award.
David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp, included it in his 2018 reading list, saying it lets readers reflect on their own flaws through how others face theirs. He also liked how brief each vignette is, often only a few pages.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (Co-Founder/Basecamp)
A chance to reflect on your own life and flaws by reading how others deal with theirs. I also love how short the vignettes are. Usually just a few pages. It’s immensely readable, and the whole book is refreshingly succinct as well.
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