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Peter marinker in a series of short, vivid, dramatic stories, using psychoanalytic insight, the examined life uncovers the extraordinary hidden feelings behind apparently ordinary behaviour. Stephen grosz and meera sayal talk with harriet walter about chekhov, agatha christie and katherine boos behind the beautiful forevers. Beginnings, telling lies, loving, changing and leaving. Echoing socrates statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst stephen grosz draws on his twentyfive years of work. Dec 20, 2012 stephen grosz is a practicing psychoanalysthe has worked with patients for more than twentyfive years.
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