Stephen Grosz

In this engaging conversation, Stephen Grosz, a seasoned psychoanalyst and author, discusses the intricacies of love and loss after nearly fifty years in practice. He explores how early family experiences shape our attachments and the role of denial in relationships. Grosz delves into the painful yet essential nature of real love and how failed marriages can lead to deeper connections. His insights into surrender versus submission reveal how intimacy can flourish or falter. Listeners will gain a profound understanding of grief as a catalyst for desire.

Colin Campbell, author who wrote about his grief journey in Finding the Words, offers practical guidance for working through profound loss. Stephen Grosz, psychoanalyst and bestselling author of Love's Labor, explores the quiet, difficult realities of intimate bonds. They discuss confronting grief directly, how longing and loss shape love, guiding others through mourning, and channeling rage and reconnection in healthy ways.

Stephen Grosz, a practicing psychoanalyst and bestselling author, brings forty years of clinical experience to bear. He explores why love feels so difficult. Short, vivid stories reveal resistance to change, the work of seeing ourselves clearly, the pressures on partnerships, and how mortality and gratitude shape our capacity to love.

Stephen Grosz, a practicing psychoanalyst with 40+ years and bestselling author, joins to explore love's difficulties. He shares clinical stories about commitment ambivalence, affairs, grief, and how self-deception blocks connection. Conversations probe surrender versus submission, cultural dating pressures, long-term discoveries in analysis, and partnership as ongoing developmental work.

Stephen Grosz, a British-American psychoanalyst and bestselling author with over 40 years of clinical work, shares stories from the consulting room. He discusses why analysis takes time, how silence and small details reveal inner patterns, dreams as films of feeling, the pain of desire, and how loss, love and endings shape who we become.