Book description
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.
Frank Tallis is a writer and practising clinical psychologist in
Harley Street. In 1999 he received a Writers' Award from the Arts
Council of Great Britain and in 2000 he won the New London Writers'
Award (London Arts Board).
Love Sick
is also published by Century. Frank lives and works in London.
