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    NPR: Weekend Edition with Rachel Martin

    Dreams. How we describe our dreams can be more important than what they contain. Host Rachel Martin talks with Stephen Grosz, a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves. Grosz uses dreams to better understand his patients’ motivations and feelings.

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    Talking to Lucy Kalanithi

    Recorded at Waterstones in Hampstead, Lucy Kalanithi, widow of Paul Kalanithi, talks to psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz about her husband’s memoir When Breath Becomes Air.

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