Frank Tallis

Aug 9, 2024 | avoiceformen.com | Frank Tallis

The following is the final of a three-part series about romantic love from Frank Tallis’ book Love Sick. In this part Tallis looks at the division between Asian and Western approaches to love. -Ed.In the early 1990’s, a group of social scientists undertook a large cross-cultural study, in which they interviewed students from the USA, Italy, and the People’s Republic of China about a variety of emotional experiences, including happiness, fear, anger, sadness and love.

Aug 8, 2024 | avoiceformen.com | Frank Tallis

The following is Part 2 of a three-part series about romantic love from Frank Tallis’ book Love Sick. In this part Dr. Tallis uncovers the cultural roots of men’s tendency toward idealizing women and placing them on pedestals. -Ed. The romantic themes of idealisation and forbidden (or non-consummated) love were taken to new extremes in Renaissance Italy. Poets such as Dante and Petrarch placed their muses on absurdly elevated pedestals.

Aug 7, 2024 | avoiceformen.com | Frank Tallis

The following is Part 1 of a three-part extract from Frank Tallis’ book Love Sick. The book takes a good look at romantic love, or more accurately the sickness of it – a fact underlined by many writers at AVfM who have exposed the bankruptcy of romantic chivalry. Dr. Tallis’ extensive clinical experience confirms just how sick-making these practices are for all who indulge them. – Eds.

Mar 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Frank Tallis

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.

Jan 31, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Venki Ramakrishnan |Frank Tallis |Anna Shechtman |Jessica Lee

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