Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst—he has worked with patients for more than thirty-five years.
Born in America, he waseducated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University. He teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. He lives in London. His stories have appeared in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine and Granta.
His first book The Examined Life, was an Sunday Times bestseller and was translated into more than a dozen languages. His new book, Love’s Labour is published in August 2025.
Selected Interviews
The Analysed Self
And interview with Tim Black for Spikd! It’s getting late. Outside, the glare of the winter sun has given way to the airless purple of a cold January evening. A patient is due any moment now. But, as my interviewee makes profoundly clear, there really is no time like the present. So I ask one more question: ‘How much of Sigmund Freud’s thought is still vital to psychoanalysis today?’ ‘That’s ...
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, ...
Talking to Lucy Kalanithi
Recorded at Waterstones in Hampstead, Lucy Kalanithi, widow of Paul Kalanithi, talks to psychoanalyst and author Stephen Grosz about her husband's memoir When Breath Becomes Air ...