Stephen Grosz | Love’s Labour
Recorded: Sat 25 Apr 2026
Duration: 1 hour
Stephen Grosz | Love’s Labour
Spring 2026
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, psychoanalyst and writer Stephen Grosz asks, “What gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?”
As an analyst, Grosz’s ability is to locate what ails the heartsick, through hours of talking and listening. 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. In this recording from our Spring 2026 Festival, the bestselling author of The Examined Life brings his unerring abilities to identify what hides behind the pain of heartsickness. Chaired by journalist, broadcaster and author Sian Williams.
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Please note: this recording sadly does not include the first three minutes of the event, so it jumps straight into the conversation without an introduction.
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