Frank Tallis Books in Order

A practical self-help guide to obsessive-compulsive problems. Tallis explains checking, washing, hoarding, intrusive thoughts, and worry in plain language, then offers anxiety-reduction techniques and step-by-step ways to break compulsive patterns.

A short, readable guide for people living with schizophrenia and for those around them. It explains symptoms, treatment, and day-to-day coping in a calm, practical way, with advice aimed at reducing fear and stigma.

Tallis brings together research on OCD's history, symptoms, neuropsychology, and treatment. Written for students and clinicians, it links cognitive theory, brain science, and therapy to explain how obsessive thinking and compulsive rituals take hold.

A brisk history of psychotherapy for general readers. Tallis moves from Freud to behaviour and cognitive therapies, showing how different schools tried to relieve suffering and why their ideas still shape mental health care.

A brilliant young mathematician drifts into obsession as virtual reality, jealousy, and psychosis begin to overlap. Tallis turns a modern London story into an uneasy thriller about perception, guilt, and the violence hidden inside intelligence.

A practical guide to understanding why worry starts and why it keeps going. Tallis treats worry as a problem-solving system that can misfire, then offers simple tools for reducing anxiety and getting daily life back on track.

A London rock keyboardist volunteers for drug trials and starts picking up other people's thoughts, or thinks he does. As paranoia deepens and violence edges closer, the novel plays with telepathy, identity, and the cost of altered perception.

Tallis traces the long history of the unconscious, from hypnosis and dreams to psychoanalysis and modern neuroscience. It is a lively tour through the hidden processes that shape thought, memory, desire, and behaviour.

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, psychoanalyst Max Liebermann helps Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt investigate the impossible death of a young medium. The case mixes locked-room mystery, early Freud, and a city alive with art, music, and new ideas.

Using case histories, history, and psychology, Tallis asks how close love comes to madness. He explores obsession, jealousy, delusion, and desire, arguing that romantic love can overlap with states we usually label as illness.

Winter grips Vienna as mutilated bodies begin appearing across the city. Liebermann and Rheinhardt follow the trail into secret societies, racial theories, and a killer whose logic is as unsettling as the crimes.

When a cadet is found savaged at an elite military school, Liebermann and Rheinhardt enter a closed world of bullying, sadism, and buried secrets. The case soon widens into something more personal and more dangerous for the fading empire.

A decapitated monk and a murdered councillor push Vienna toward panic and anti-Semitic blame. As Liebermann helps Rheinhardt investigate, the case draws him into Jewish mysticism, political extremism, and the city's deepening fractures.

Young women are dying by an almost invisible weapon, and the killer's desires resist easy explanation. As Liebermann studies a murderer who seems to split love from selfhood, the investigation becomes both intimate and deeply unnerving.

After opera star Ida Rosenkranz dies from an apparent overdose, Liebermann and Rheinhardt suspect murder. Their investigation leads through the Vienna Opera, Gustav Mahler's orbit, and the city's poisonous mix of glamour, politics, and scandal.

Doctor Paul Clément begins with dreams of curing tropical disease, then becomes obsessed with what lies between death and life. Moving from a remote island to fin-de-siecle Paris, this gothic thriller ties science, electricity, and evil into one dark experiment.

When a grieving Hungarian countess is found drowned in her bath, Vienna is ready to call it suicide. Liebermann and Rheinhardt are less convinced, especially once they meet her charming, indebted, and deeply troubling young widower.

Young psychiatrist James Richards takes a dream job at a Suffolk institution where disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. As he learns more about the women in the sleep room, medical ambition shades into dread and ghostly uncertainty.

During the brutal summer of 1976, a composer, his wife, and their baby move into a shabby Victorian house in north London. What starts as sounds on a baby monitor turns into obsession, fear, and a haunting that will not stay background noise.

A compact manual on how worry works and when it stops being useful. Tallis explains the brain's warning system, then offers straightforward methods for problem-solving, decision-making, and coping when anxious thoughts will not let go.

In 1942, a German U-boat takes on two mysterious prisoners and heads into the North Atlantic. War, secrecy, and supernatural terror close in together as the trapped crew begin to suspect something else has come aboard.

A disfigured corpse in an abandoned piano factory draws Liebermann and Rheinhardt into a strange investigation in Vienna, 1904. The trail leads through music, politics, and fringe sexual circles toward a crime that feels staged like judgment.

Drawing on real clinical cases, Tallis explores obsessive love in all its stranger forms. These unsettling stories of longing, jealousy, delusion, and attachment ask where ordinary romance ends and pathology begins.

Tallis places Freud inside the wider world that made him, from coffeehouse Vienna to the city's artists, musicians, and political tensions. Part biography and part cultural history, the book tracks how psychoanalysis emerged and why it still matters.