A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week. This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences. These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, and the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too.

Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom provides essential commentary on the Human Rights Act 1998 and examines the impact of human rights obligations on legislation. Based on Grosz, Beatson & Duffy's Human Rights-The 1998 Act and the European Convention, Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom examines the different ways in which human rights are protected by the domestic courts. Guidance on how sections of the Act need to be interpreted are provided, as well as an explanation of common law, European Union law, devolution legislation and other statutes. ...