Stephen Grosz has welcomed people into his office for more than 40 years, and believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with more clarity, in order to live more easily and with more please.

Stephen has sat with people as they have shared their darkest fears, strangest dreams and their most explosive love affairs.

Through thousands of hours of these conversations, he has tried to help patients understand themselves so they can live with more ease and with greater satisfaction.

Stephen believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with more clarity.

That's the quest that his driven his work dissecting compelling stories of love, desire and heartbreak from his consulting room.

Love's Labour is published by Penguin.

This episode of Conversations was produced by Jennifer Leake. Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.

It explores therapy, love, marriage, relationships, writing, books, analysis, counselling, introspection, looking inwards, how to self reflect, how to survive heartbreak, what do I do with desire, how to live a fulfilling life, how we lose and find ourselves, United States, University of California Berkeley, Oxford, Institute of Psychoanalysis, mental wellbeing, University College of London.

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