Stephen Grosz | Love’s Labour

Sat 25 Apr 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Headshot of author Stephen Grosz
Book jacket for Love's Labours

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. Join the bestselling author of The Examined Life as he brings his unerring abilities to identify what hides behind the pain of heartsickness.

Venue: Palmerston Room

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst – he has worked with patients for more than forty years. Born in America, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, and now lives in London. His Number One Sunday Times bestseller, The Examined Life, has been translated into more than thirty languages.