<p>Here, leading clinical psychologist, Dr Frank Tallis, explores our age-old preoccupation with love and in particular romantic love. Love is rarely described as a wholly pleasant experience and Tallis considers our experiences and descriptions of love and why the combinations of pleasure and pain, ecstasy and despair, rapture and grief have come to characterise what we mean when we speak about falling in love. Obsessive thoughts, erratic mood swings, insomnia, loss of appetite, recurrent and persistent images and impulses (irresistible urges to phone or text), superstitious or ritualistic compulsions (she loves me, she loves me not), inability to concentrate - so much so that it affects your work, delusion, (are his eyes really deep pools of oceanic azure?). Exhibiting just five or six of these symptoms is enough to merit a diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode, according to the recognized medical criteria. Drawing on the writings of poets, philosophers, songwriters, zoologists and scientists Tallis shows how throughout time - and particularly in the West, the metaphor of illness and specifically mental illness has been used to describe the state of being in love. And asks why it is that we continue to search out this kind of love, with the ecstasy seeming to blind us to the agony.</p>

Love Sick

Self-Help

Frank Tallis

Motivational

Random House]

<p>It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are at their most exciting and flourishing, with the coffee shops full of men and women debating the latest cultural and political theories. Liebermann's good friend Oskar Rheinhardt is a Detective Inspector - hard working, but lacking Liebermann's insights and forensic eye and so it is through Rheinhardt that Libermann is called upon to help with police investigations surrounding the death of a beautiful young medium, in what seems at first to be supernatural circumstances. While Liebermann attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery, he also must decide whether he is to follow his father's advice and marry the beautiful but reserved Clara.</p>

Mortal Mischief

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Arrow

The second in the Dr. Max Liebermann series, literature’s first psychoanalytic detective.  In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon  a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols,  and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. 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 evolutionary theories coming out of  England. At first, the killer’s mind seems impenetrable — his behaviour and cryptic  clues impervious to psychoanalytic interpretation; however, gradually, it becomes  apparent that an extraordinary and shocking rationale underlies his actions. . .  .   Against this backdrop of mystery and terror, Liebermann struggles with his own  demons. The treatment of a patient suffering from paranoia erotica (a delusion of  love) and his own fascination with the enigmatic Englishwoman Amelia Lydgate raises  doubts concerning the propriety of his imminent marriage. To resolve the dilemma,  he must entertain the unthinkable — risking opprobrium and accusations of cowardice.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Vienna Blood

Arrow Books, Ltd.

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. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt seeks the assistance of his young friend, the psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann, and they begin their inquiries at Vienna's majestic opera house, where its director, Gustav Mahler, is struggling to maintain a pure artistic vision while threatened on all sides by pompous bureaucrats, vainglorious singers, and a hostile press. When the demagogue Mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, becomes the prime suspect - with an election only months away - the Rosenkrantz case becomes politically explosive. The trail leads Rheinhardt and Liebermann, via a social climbing professor of psychiatry, to the Hofburg palace and the mysterious Lord Marshal's office - a shadowy bureau that deals ruthlessly with enemies of the ageing Emperor Franz Josef. As the investigation proceeds, the investigators are placed in great personal danger, as corruption is exposed at the very highest levels. Meanwhile, Liebermann pursues two private obsessions: a coded message in a piece of piano music, and the alluring Englishwoman, Miss Amelia Lydgate. Romance and high drama coincide as the Habsburg Empire teeters on the edge of scandal and ruin.

Death and the Maiden

Vintage

Killing Time

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Relationships

Deadly Communion Large Print

Clipper Large Print

Mortal Secrets (hardcover)

Little, Brown Book Group, London

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]  [Read by Matthew Brenher] From Edgar nominee F. R. Tallis comes his latest tale of psychological suspense -- and a brilliant reinvention of the ghost story. When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk, Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage Maitland's most controversial project -- a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. If this radical and potentially dangerous procedure is successful, it could mean professional glory for both doctors. As Richardson settles into his new life, he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients -- six women, forsaken by society. Why is Maitland unwilling to discuss their past lives? Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? And what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? In this atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story, Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of the sleep room.

The Sleep Room (Library Edition)

Genre Fiction

Blackstone Audio

[Read by Matthew Brenher] From Edgar nominee F. R. Tallis comes his latest tale of psychological suspense -- and a brilliant reinvention of the ghost story. When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk, Richardson doesn't look back. One of his tasks is to manage Maitland's most controversial project -- a pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. If this radical and potentially dangerous procedure is successful, it could mean professional glory for both doctors. As Richardson settles into his new life, he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients -- six women, forsaken by society. Why is Maitland unwilling to discuss their past lives? Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? And what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? In this atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story, Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of the sleep room.

The Sleep Room

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