The Act of Living by Frank Tallis
An highly original account of psychology through the discipline's great practitioners ( Freud, Jung etc) and their thoughts. It functions both as narrative and by extension a sophisticated self-help book. To be compared with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy
Tallis writes with clarity and wit
Tallis has distilled a wide range of psychological writing without oversimplifying the insights or reducing them to self-help platitudes. . Tallis is an engaging writer and this is at heart a highly readable, often touching history of the talking cures and some of their most brilliant exponents -- Sebastian Faulks * Sunday Times *
Psychology has its rogues and charlatans but this history reminds you it is a force for good . . . his writing is brisk and clear, his narrative is both thematic and roughly chronological, which is no easy feat of organisation, and studded with heavily disguised case histories -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *
Few psychotherapists write with the clarity of Tallis . . . He also peppers the book with delightful nuggets from the psychological world . . . a gifted storyteller * The Tablet *
An engaging and expansive tour of our modern-day therapeutic landscape * Times Literary Supplement *
Tallis has distilled a wide range of psychological writing without oversimplifying the insights or reducing them to self-help platitudes. . Tallis is an engaging writer and this is at heart a highly readable, often touching history of the talking cures and some of their most brilliant exponents -- Sebastian Faulks * Sunday Times *
Psychology has its rogues and charlatans but this history reminds you it is a force for good . . . his writing is brisk and clear, his narrative is both thematic and roughly chronological, which is no easy feat of organisation, and studded with heavily disguised case histories -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *
Few psychotherapists write with the clarity of Tallis . . . He also peppers the book with delightful nuggets from the psychological world . . . a gifted storyteller * The Tablet *
An engaging and expansive tour of our modern-day therapeutic landscape * Times Literary Supplement *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408711378 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408711370 |
| Title | The Act of Living |
| Author | Frank Tallis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2021-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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