Psychoanalyst and bestselling author of The Examined Life Stephen Grosz joins us with new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room.

The Examined Life, the bestselling debut from psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz, was about learning how to live; now he returns to share his insights into 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 will ask, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there?

We will 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.

Stephen’s unerring ability is to locate what ails the heartsick, through hours of talking and listening. He will elegantly show 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.

Tickets to this event are at a £15 discount for members of How To +, and members can also watch the livestream for free.

Praise for the work of Stephen Grosz:

‘Writing with sympathy and insight, Grosz distils years of work into a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks’ – New York Times

‘I was enthralled . . . profound and moving, large ideas packed into a slim volume’ –Observer