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.

Mortal Mischief

Literature & Fiction

Tallis, Frank

Contemporary

Arrow

Fatal Lies

The eagerly awaited third novel in the Max Liebermann series — literature’s first psychoanalytic detective — is about sex, the will to power and deception. Vienna, 1903. In the rambling hillside edifice that is St. Florian’s military school, a young cadet is found dead, his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend — and disciple of Freud — Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him investigate. In the closed society of the school, power is everything, and suspicion falls on an elite group of cadets with a penchant for sadism and dangerous games. When it is discovered that the dead boy was a frequent guest of the deputy headmaster’s attractive wife, other motives for murder suggest themselves. A tangled web of relationships and dark secrets is uncovered, which Liebermann, using new psychoanalytic tools such as dream interpretation and the ink-blot test, begins to probe. At the same time, he finds himself romantically involved with a mysterious Hungarian concert violinist, Trezska Novak, a woman gifted with uncannily accurate intuitions. Again, all is not what it seems, and Liebermann is drawn into the perilous world of espionage. The choices he is forced to make will threaten the entire stability of the Habsburg Empire.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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

DEADLY COMMUNION

Literary

Darkness Rising: (Liebermann Papers 4)

Killing Time

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Sensing Others

Hamish Hamilton

Changing Minds: The History of Psychotherapy As an Answer to Human Suffering

This study is aimed at the lay person with a "readable" history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It provides an introduction to the key figures from Freud to Beck and explains their most important ideas. It also illustrates how psychotherapy has influenced our understanding of the mind and how it works, particularly in the area as we refer to as "mental illness". This book explores the "character" of major figures in psychology as well as their ideas. Links are made throughout, showing how historical and cultural events (for example, the Holocaust and the invention of the computer) have influenced ideas about the mind, and vice versa.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

UNKNO

Changing Minds is an accessible history of psychotherapy, introducing its key figures (from Freud to Beck) and explaining their most important ideas. The book shows how psychotherapy has influenced our understanding of the mind and its workings, particularly with respect to the form of suffering that we call 'mental illness'. Frank Tallis argues that, in a world in which the old certainties of religion have been brought into question by the advance of science, psychotherapy represents a secular response to suffering. Unlike many boos of psychology, Changing Minds explores the personalities of the field's major figures, as well as their ideas. Throughout, the author shows how historical and cultural events, such as the Holocaust and the invention of the computer, have influenced ideas about the mind, and vice versa. Crammed with entertaining and informative vignettes, and many references to theatre, and literature, this book places scientific developments in a cultural context, making it both accessible and interesting.

Sage Pubns

In The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with over three thousand prostitutes--because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman's pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her. Along the way, we learn a great deal about the history of psychiatry and the role of neuroscience in addressing disordered love. Elegantly written and infused with deep sympathy, The Incurable Romantic shows how all of us can become a bit crazy in love.

Incurable Romantic

Little, Brown Book Group

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