Can Love Last?

"A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."âBarbara Fisher, Boston Globe Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationshipsâit becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if only we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect ourselves from its risks. "Those who read this book will love more wisely because of it."âAndrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon "[A] work on romance that is rich and multi-layered."âPublishers Weekly "Cheerful, open, and humaneâyou'd definitely have wanted him as your analyst."âJudith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review "[T]houghtful, compassionate, and profoundly optimistic."âJoAnn Gutin, Salon.com