Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising patient conversations, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz examines the complexities of love and relationships in this compelling work. Discover insights that can change the way you think about connection and intimacy.

This book reveals how seeing ourselves and our world clearly is the prerequisite for truly loving one another, offering wisdom derived from intimate consulting room encounters.

• Explores why relationships often become difficult, drawing from extensive clinical experience.
• Features revealing case studies, including the woman struggling with wedding invitations, the ex-nun driven to the convent by unconscious fears, and the friendship group fractured by an affair.
• Offers wisdom on achieving clarity about oneself to foster better loving relationships.
• Authored by Stephen Grosz, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author recognized as the ‘poet laureate of human emotion’ by Elizabeth Day.

• Author: Stephen Grosz
• Brand/Publisher: Vintage
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Print Length: 208 pages
• Dimensions: 128 x 15 x 198mm (12.8 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm)
• ISBN-10: 1529932416
• ISBN-13: 978-1529932416
• Release Date: 28 May 2026
• Category Ranking Highlights: #7 in Theory of Psychoanalysis, #11 in Marriage Relationships

If you are interested in psychoanalytic theory applied to modern relationships, Love’s Labour provides a powerful and compelling exploration of human emotion.