Stephen Grosz (born 1952) is a British

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. Born in

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, United States, and educated at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

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Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, Grosz teaches clinical technique at the

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and psychoanalytic theory at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. He has been Consultant Adult Psychotherapist at the

Portman Clinic The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust based in north London. The Trust specialises in talking therapies. The education and training department caters for 2,000 students a year from the United Kin ...

in London. His writings have appeared in the

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. His book, ''The Examined Life,'' was published by Chatto and Windus (UK) in January 2013, and spent the first three months after publication in the top ten of the ''

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'' non-fiction bestseller list. ''The Examined Life'' was published in the United States by W.W. Norton and in Canada by Random House Canada in May 2013. It has been translated into over 25 languages including Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish, and will soon be published in Chinese, Hebrew and Japanese. In ''The New York Times'', Michiko Kakutani praised the book as "an insightful and beautifully written… a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks." An abridged version of the book was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ''The Examined Life'' was long-listed for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award. ''The Examined Life'' was chosen as one of 2013's Books of the Year in: The New York Times (Michiko Kakutani), Sunday Times (James McConnachie), Observer (Lisa Appignanesi), Salon (Emma Brockes), Mail on Sunday (Craig Brown), Observer (Lucy Lethbridge), The British Psychological Society.

External links

Author Website

Profile at The Guardian

Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency

Night and Day, Issue Three, Vintage Books

Poet Wendy Cope in conversation with Stephen Grosz
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The Fire Alarm is Ringing. What Are You Waiting For?
(Excerpt from Stephen Grosz's ''The Examined Life'')

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grosz, Stephen Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Academics of University College London American psychotherapists British psychoanalysts 1952 births