Frank Tallis

Tallis is a clinical psychologist who has worked in London hospitals and taught at the Institute of Psychiatry, and How to Stop Worrying is the short practical book that comes out of treating anxiety rather than theorising about it: worry identified as a habit with a structure, then taken apart step by step. He writes fiction as well, chiefly the Liebermann Papers, in which a young disciple of Freud helps a Viennese detective in the years before the First World War, and the psychoanalytic detail is accurate because he does not have to look it up. The Incurable Romantic collects case histories treating love as a clinical problem.