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Frank Tallis (born 1 September 1958) is an English author and clinical psychologist, whose area of expertise is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He has written crime novels, including the collection of novels known as the Liebermann Papers, for which he has received several awards, is an essayist, and – under the name of F.R. Tallis — has written horror fiction. The Liebermann novels have been adapted by Stephen Thompson into the BBC TV series Vienna Blood, which first aired in 2019. Early life Frank Tallis was born Francesco de Nato Napolitano in Stoke Newington in northeast London and grew up in Tottenham, a district characterised by ethnic diversity and social tensions, where he attended one of the former secondary modern schools, and describes his background as "100% Southern Italian". After he left school he initially lived an unsteady life, teaching piano and playing in a rock band. Then he married, and lived in the country for a while with his wife and their child. Psychologist After he and his wife divorced he earned a doctorate in psychology and worked for the British National Health Service for a long time, taught clinical psychology and neuroscience at King's College London, and treated private patients. Tallis has been a full-time writer since the late 2000s and lives in London. Writing Tallis has published more than 30 articles in psychology and psychiatry journals. He has written four popular science books on psychology, drawing on anonymized case studies from his therapeutic practice, including The Incurable Romantic and Other Unsettling Revelations, in which he deals with the phenomenon of obsessive love. Since 2005, Tallis has been writing crime novels, published under the rubric of the Liebermann Papers and set in Vienna around the beginning of the 20th century. The two main characters are Vienna police inspector Oskar Reinhardt and his friend and adviser, psychiatrist Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud and a regular guest at Freud's apartment at Berggasse 19, now the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Bibliography Non-fiction 1990: How to Stop Worrying, Sheldon (London), ISBN 978-1847090898 1992: Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions: A Self- Help Manual, Sheldon (London), ISBN 978-0859696524 1994: Worrying: Perspectives on Theory, Assessment, and Treatment (co-editor with Graham C. Davey), Wiley (New York), ISBN 978-0471968030 1994: Coping with Schizophrenia (co-author with Steven Jones), Sheldon (London), ISBN 978-0859696791 1995: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Cognitive and Neuropsychological Perspective, Wiley (New York), ISBN 978-0471957720 1998: Changing Minds: The History of Psychotherapy as an Answer to Human Suffering, Cassell (New York), ISBN 978-0304703630 2002: Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious, Arcade Publishing (New York), ISBN 978-1611455052 2005: Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness, Da Capo Books, ISBN 978-1560256472 2015: The Sheldon Short Guide to Worry and Anxiety, SPCK, ISBN 978-1847093646 2019: The Incurable Romantic and Other Unsettling Revelations, Abacus, ISBN 978-0349142951 2020: The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment, Basic Books, ISBN 978-1541673038 2024: Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-1250288950 Crime fiction Max Liebermann mysteries 2005: Mortal Mischief: (Liebermann Papers 1), Arrow Books, ISBN 978-0099471288; U.S. title: A Death in Vienna, Random House, ISBN 978-0812977639 2006: Vienna Blood: (Liebermann Papers 2), Arrow Books, ISBN 978-0099471325 2008: Fatal Lies: (Liebermann Papers 3), Century, ISBN 978-0812977776 2009: Darkness Rising: (Liebermann Papers 4), Century, ISBN 978-0099519744; U.S. title: Vienna Secrets, Random House, ISBN 978-0812980998 2010: Deadly Communion: (Liebermann Papers 5), Arrow Books, ISBN 978-0099519720; U.S. title: Vienna Twilight, Random House, ISBN 978-0812981001 2011: Death and the Maiden: (Liebermann Papers 6), Arrow Books, ISBN 978-1846053573 2018: Mephisto Waltz, Pegasus Books, ISBN 978-1643130507 Horror fiction Writing as F.R. Tallis 2014: The Voices, Pan, ISBN 978-1447236023 2016: The Forbidden, Pan, ISBN 978-1447204985 2017: The Sleep Room, Pegasus Books, ISBN 978-1447204992 2017: The Passenger, Pegasus Books, ISBN 978-1681773315 Awards and nominations 1999: Writers' Award, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1999 2000: New London Writers award, London Arts Board, for Killing Time. 2005: Mortal Mischief nominated for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award. 2007: Mortal Mischief nominated for the French Quais du Polar prize References External links Frank Tallis at IMDb. Discover the Frank Tallis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Frank Tallis books.