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This book is about learning to live.

Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.

These are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he's dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.

'This moving book will make the reader think of Freud's keenly observed and literary-minded case studies...piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' New York Times

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In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us who with a visual brain can often be overlooked and underestimated. In this landmark book, bestselling author of The Autistic Brain Temple Grandin delves into the world of the visual thinker and reveals the hidden powers of this remarkable ability.

Drawing on the latest research and her own experience as a visual thinker, Grandin reveals how our modern structures from education and health through to politics and media are biased towards the dominant verbal thinkers and in turn under serve those of us who see the world differently. This is a perspective shifting book that will open your mind to the value of a life in picture.",{"_800":816,"_802":995,"_779":996},{"_800":816,"_802":828,"_779":1185},"Ebury Publishing",{"_800":816,"_802":807,"_779":1187},"UK-Trade Paper",{"_800":816,"_802":833,"_779":834},{"_800":816,"_802":1002,"_779":1190},"PSYCHOLOGY",{"_800":816,"_802":839,"_779":1192},"2022-10-18",{"_800":816,"_802":842,"_779":1194},"288",{"_800":816,"_802":810,"_779":1196},"Rider",{"_800":845,"_802":731,"_779":1011},{"_800":845,"_802":1102,"_779":818},{"_800":845,"_802":850,"_779":1013},{"_800":845,"_802":1107,"_779":1201},"01/09/2026",{"_800":845,"_802":1112,"_779":1203},"40.0",{"_800":845,"_802":1116,"_779":858},{"_800":860,"_802":861,"_779":862},{"_800":860,"_802":731,"_779":862},{"_800":860,"_802":865,"_779":747},{"_800":860,"_802":1123,"_779":747},{"_800":860,"_802":869,"_779":870},{"_800":860,"_802":1127,"_779":870},{"_800":860,"_802":874,"_779":875},{"_800":860,"_802":1131,"_779":875},{"_800":860,"_802":879,"_779":880},{"_800":860,"_802":1134,"_779":880},{"_800":860,"_802":882,"_779":1140},{"_800":860,"_802":1139,"_779":1140},{"_764":1218},[1219],{"_767":116,"_768":-5,"_130":1220,"_209":1221,"_770":1225,"_776":1226,"_17":1169,"_780":1228,"_782":1229},"gid://shopify/ProductVariant/50633149251781",{"_1038":1222,"_1040":1041,"_130":1223,"_35":1166,"_1043":1224},"The Visual Thinker Cover Image","gid://shopify/ProductImage/44337923457221",1281,{"_772":773,"_774":1203},[1227],{"_751":752,"_779":1169},"9781846046872",{"_784":1230},[1231],{"_787":1232},{"_789":116,"_133":1233},{"_751":729},{"_130":1235,"_17":1236,"_742":1237,"_761":1238,"_797":1240,"_762":1291},"gid://shopify/Product/10331541962949","Predictably Irrational : The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions","predictably-irrational-the-hidden-forces-that-shape-our-decisions",{"_35":1239},"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0625/6679/3413/files/978-0-00-725653-2.jpg?v=1790662064",[1241,1242,1244,1245,1247,-5,1249,1250,1252,1254,1256,1258,1259,1261,1262,1263,-5,1264,1266,1268,-5,1270,-5,1271,-5,1272,1273,-5,1275,-5,1277,-5,1278,1279,-5,1280,1281,-5,1282,1283,-5,1284,1285,-5,1286,-5,-5,1287,1289,-5],{"_800":801,"_802":17,"_779":1236},{"_800":801,"_802":804,"_779":1243},"ARIELY DAN",{"_800":801,"_802":807,"_779":808},{"_800":801,"_802":810,"_779":1246},"HARPER",{"_800":801,"_802":813,"_779":1248},"HEDS",{"_800":816,"_802":817,"_779":818},{"_800":816,"_802":17,"_779":1251},"Predictably Irrational",{"_800":816,"_802":821,"_779":1253},"The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions",{"_800":816,"_802":804,"_779":1255},"Dan Ariely",{"_800":816,"_802":826,"_779":1257},"

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Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is \"free\" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions?

In this astounding book, behavioural economist Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviour, demonstrating how irrationality often supplants rational thought and that the reason for this is embedded in the very structure of our minds.

Predictably Irrational brilliantly blends everyday experiences with a series of illuminating and often surprising experiments, which will change your understanding of human behaviour. And, by recognizing these patterns, Ariely shows that we can make better decisions in business, in matters of collective welfare, and in our everyday lives, from drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner.

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Dreams

The Wisdom of Sleep

by Kelly Bulkeley