Stephen Grosz
Author & Psychoanalyst
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    Talking to Karl Ove Knausgård

    ‘I would rather shoot myself than have therapy. It’s part of growing up in Norway in the 1970s; you don’t cry and you don’t complain’
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, Evening Standard

    In May 2014, the Lutyens & Rubinstein Bookshop arranged for Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of the My Struggle novels, to meet in conversation with Stephen Grosz, author of The Examined Life and renowned psychoanalyst.

    The two men discuss death, intimacy, art, controversy, Bruce Springsteen and more with riveting candour and insight.

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    Interviews

    Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

    Stephen Grosz talks to Andrew Sullivan about Love And Psychoanalysis on “The Weekly Dish” .

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    Interviews

    The Psychoanalytic Quarterly The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

    Rodrigo Barahona talks to Stephen Grosz For the Quarterly’s upcoming October 2026 issue, our Book Review Editor Rodrigo Barahona interviewed writer and analyst Stephen Grosz about his newest book Love’s […]

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    New York Times Interview

    A Psychoanalyst Lets Us Eavesdrop Stephen Grosz’s books show a new generation the inner workings of psychoanalysis. By Daphne Merkin March 3, 2026 To many of us, what goes on […]

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    Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

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    Stephen Grosz talks to Andrew Sullivan about Love And Psychoanalysis on “The Weekly Dish” ...
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    Marie Battle Singer Fund

    Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is establishing a Fund in memory of Dr Marie Battle Singer,  Britain’s first Black psychoanalyst and one of the earliest Research Fellows at Clare Hall.

    To read more about the fund, click here.

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