Böcker av Frank Tallis

'An unusually well-balanced and remarkably fresh account of Freud's life and work - in historical and cultural context - viewed from the perspective of our own troubled times, and with contemporary scientific hindsight' Mark Solms, author of The Brain and the Inner World' Tallis makes Freud's life and the lost world of Viennese society vividly comprehensible . Excellent and entertaining' Amanda Craig

An highly original account of psychology through the discipline's great practitioners ( Freud, Jung etc) and their thoughts. It functions both as narrative and by extension a sophisticated self-help book. To be compared with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy

Here, leading clinical psychologist, Dr Frank Tallis, explores our age-old preoccupation with love and in particular romantic love.

Vienna, 1903. An operatic diva, Ida Rosenkrantz, is found dead in her luxurious villa. It appears that she has taken an overdose of morphine, but a broken rib, discovered during autopsy, suggests other and more sinister possibilities.

A leading authority on obsessive disorders considers the experiences and expressions of love, offering an eloquent, thought-provoking, and endlessly illuminating look at one of the most important aspects of human behavior.

A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann, for assistance.

Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Detective Inspector Rheinhardt turns to his trusted friend, the young psychoanalyst Doctor Max Liebermann, for assistance.

The hit novels behind the major new TV series Vienna Blood___________________________Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the city's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds.

Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to assist him with the case. The investigation draws them into the sphere of Vienna's secret societies - a murky underworld of German literary scholars, race theorists, and scientists inspired by the new English evolutionary theories.

It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst. His friend Oskar Rheinhardt is a Detective Inspector. It is through Rheinhardt that Libermann is called upon to help with police investigations surrounding the death of a young medium, in what seems at first to be supernatural circumstances.