“It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.”

Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist who specialises in obsessive compulsive disorder. He is also a multi-award-winning author of several books including the Lieberamann papers which was adapted into the BBC show Vienna Blood.  

Tallis's most recent book The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety was described by the Times Literary Supplement as "an engaging and expansive tour of our modern-day therapeutic landscape".

"Few psychotherapists write with the clarity of Tallis." — The Tablet