Stephen Grosz – författare

A work of genius It would not be humanly possible for me to recommend his work more highly India Knight Left me feeling wiser and more open to life Oliver BurkemanLuminous and necessary stories from the psychoanalyst's consulting room; on desire, heartbreak and learning how to love.When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?In the intimate space of the consulting room, we meet the woman who can t post her wedding invitations but then, decades later, can t decide whether to get divorced; the friendship group that explodes when an adulterous affair begins; and the man whose partner s death is almost too much to bear.As an analyst, Grosz s unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick. As a writer, he elegantly shows how we can deploy the agonies of love as tools for understanding.The labour of love is the work of a lifetime but in finally learning to see ourselves and our world clearly, we find we are truly ready to love one another.*** A 'BEST BOOK OF 2025' IN THE TIMES AND IRISH TIMES*** The poet laureate of human emotion Elizabeth Day This man could save your marriage Sunday Times'Stephen Grosz ... is one of the best at writing about psychoanalysis' The Times'Powerful and compelling' Guardian'This is a beautiful book' Nigella Lawson

Brought to you by Penguin. The bestselling debut from psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life, was about learning to live; his much-anticipated new book is about learning to love. Grosz reveals how to navigate the obstacles – the jealousies, grievances, boredom and betrayals – which can get in the way of two people falling, and staying, in love.From the woman who can’t post her wedding invitations and then, decades later, can’t decide whether to get divorced, to the man who struggles with feelings of guilt after his partner’s death, to the couple who dread date night after thirty years of marriage: here are candid and surprising conversations from the consulting room.To love is to be vulnerable and be forever under threat from our desires. It is Grosz’s unerring ability, as an analyst and a writer, to locate what hides behind the pain of heartsickness, and to help his patients and his readers reach new understandings of their own predicaments. The great task of life, and the great labour of love, is to see our self and others clearly – we have the capacity to be frustrating as well as generous, cruel as well as loving. But in surrendering to one we hope to love, we find we are not defeated, but more truly ourselves.© Stephen Grosz 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025