The author and psychologist on an intimate performance of MR James’s ghost stories, a brilliant debut novel and an impossibly good pianist
Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. He was born in Stoke Newington, London in 1958 and trained at St George’s Hospital Medical School and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. His series of psychoanalytic detective novels, The Liebermann Papers, has been adapted for television as Vienna Blood, which can be viewed on BBC iPlayer. His new nonfiction book is Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind. He lives in London.
