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Informationen zum Autor Dr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. His non-fiction books include The Incurable Romantic , The Act of Living and Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and The Discovery of the Modern Mind, which was a book of the year in The Times . In the TLS William Boyd said 'Tallis' clear-eyed judicious analysis is the best I've read'. Tallis 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. Klappentext ' 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 Vorwort Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels , Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Zusammenfassung Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas