Dr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. His non-fiction books include Lovesick, The Incurable Romantic and The Act of Living. He is also the author of the Liebermann Papers, a psychoanalytic detective series set in Freud's Vienna and adapted for television as the BBC drama Vienna Blood. He lives in London.
Frank Tallis's lucid storytelling makes him an ideal guide in this dangerous but perennially exciting terrain * Sebastian Faulks * Tallis makes Freud's life and the lost world of Viennese society vividly comprehensible. Excellent and entertaining * Amanda Craig * 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 *