The Incurable Romantic: and Other Unsettling Revelations

Author:   Frank Tallis
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:  

9781408709863


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   07 June 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Frank Tallis
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Little, Brown
Dimensions:   Width: 23.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 15.80cm
Weight:   0.402kg
ISBN:  

9781408709863


ISBN 10:   1408709864
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   07 June 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book -- Ian McEwan Compelling -- Susie Orbach


It is utterly compelling: the details, the dialogue, which bring each character, however heavily disguised, leaping of the page . . . a fine writer. He is alert to every nuance . . . He knows how to tell a story. Boy, does he know how to tell a story. [A] powerful and moving book * The Times * Will interest anyone who wants to know what makes people tick . . . The Incurable Romantic earns its place in the fine tradition of popular psychoanalytic writing . . . an amiable and acute guide to the madness of love * The Times * [Tallis is] a brilliant raconteur with an acute ear for dialogue and sleuth-like capabilities. Only someone who has never felt sick falling head over heels, suffered the agonising pangs of jealousy, battled bestial fogs of lust or wallowed in the delirious happiness of being entwined with the object of their love could fail to be fascinated * Evening Standard * It is utterly compelling: the details, the dialogue, which bring each character, however heavily disguised, leaping off the page. Tallis's years of close observation might not always have solved his patients' problems . . . but they have helped turn him into a fine writer . . . He knows how to tell a story. Boy, does he know how to tell a story. This powerful and moving book is not just about individual cases. It's also about what the human animal needs . . . They are certainly enough here to create something that feels profoundly truthful. Something that feels, in fact, like an act of love -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times * A gifted storyteller . . . Tallis's characters remain sharply, painfully real, their stories as inconclusive, messy and fascinating as life * The Economist * Thoughtful . . . Tallis has a graceful narrative style, easily incorporating brief digressions on deeper philosophical issues such as free will versus determinism. Most importantly, his book is suffused with compassion, avoiding facile categorization and struggling to understand and empathize with his patients as people in pain * Publishers Weekly * Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book -- Ian McEwan Compelling -- Susie Orbach


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Dr Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. His non-fiction books include Lovesick, The Incurable Romantic and The Act of Living. He 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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