Mortal Secrets
Freud, Vienna, and the Birth of the Modern Mind
$36.13
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
A chronicle of Vienna’s Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS’s Vienna Blood series.
Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind and the wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250903877 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250903874 |
| Author: | Frank Tallis |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“Reading Mortal Secrets is like waltzing around a crowded ballroom, past quivering gold leaf and sternly curved flowers, while your partner murmurs in your ear very elegant, very precise summaries of primal parricide and the topographical model of the mind.” - The New Yorker
“Stunning in its breadth and depth, this is a magisterial treatment of a towering thinker.” - Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Convincingly critical and convincingly admiring–among the best of innumerable Freud bios.” - Kirkus (starred review)
Frank Tallis
Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and King’s College London. He has published over 30 scientific papers in international journals and has written a textbook on cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
He has written five works of psychology for the lay reader:
- Changing Minds (a history of psychotherapy)
- Hidden Minds (a history of the unconscious)
- Lovesick (an exploration of the relationship between romantic love and mental illness)
- The Incurable Romantic (a clinical memoir)
- The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists can Teach us about Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety.
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