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(by Mandy Van Deven • In the Fray • September 9, 2013) I didn’t expect a collection of stories about the inner struggles of psychoanalysis patients to be so much like a detective novel. Yet, in The Examined Life parallels abound. Clues are uncovered slowly in each chapter and a mystery unfolds. Hidden motivations are unearthed by identifying the meaningful in the mundane. The skillful narrator walks the reader through ...

(interview with Daniel Lefferts from Bookish.com, June, 2013) Bookish: Your book is a collection of short stories about patients, and storytelling plays role in your therapeutic approach, as well. Describe the relationship between narrative and psychoanalysis. Stephen Grosz: The people who come to analysis are in great pain, and usually part of the pain is that they can't articulate it well. They don't have a way of telling it. Often, ...

(by Lucy Scholes, The Daily Beast, June, 2013) I’ve always found psychoanalysts slightly awkward interview subjects. This is perhaps unsurprising when it comes to men and women who must be somewhat of a blank slate. Talking about oneself invariably doesn’t come easy to someone whose job is to listen. As such, I’m momentarily thrown when Stephen Grosz proves himself the perfect interview subject, engaged, engaging, warm, and not averse to ...