Verlangen, leiden, hoffen, lieben

Life writes the most beautiful stories - but also the saddest. Susanna Abse has been practising as a psychoanalytic therapist for more than 30 years and has already accompanied countless people through the deepest valleys of their lives, but also to the high points. Most of the cases are about love and relationships and in Desire, Suffer, Hope, Love she reports on all facets of love in 13 case histories. The cases are as varied as love itself - from the return of adult children to the couple life of their parents, to a single woman who longs for a partnership but is so caught up in her fears of dependency and true closeness that she cannot allow it, to a couple who opens up their relationship and has to face new freedoms and feelings. Susanna Abse guides us through therapy and love in every relationship with these stirring and moving cases. From the question of whether it is "still worth it" to new roles within an old relationship - she shows that the heart takes winding paths to embrace the greatest mystery of our lives and protect itself from pain.