Frank Tallis and Trudy Gold
A Conversation on His Latest Book ‘Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind’
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Summary
Frank Tallis discusses his latest book, Mortal Secrets, named by The London Times as one of the smartest books of the year (2024). His book entwines events of turn-of-the-century Vienna and its leading lights, like Karl Kraus and Sigmund Freud, to examine the profound and revolutionary impact the great city had on the 20th century.
Frank Tallis
Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing posts at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and King’s College London. He has published over 30 scientific papers in international journals and has written a textbook on cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He has written five works of psychology for the lay reader: Changing Minds (1999), Love Sick (2005), Hidden Minds (2012), The Incurable Romantic (2018), and The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Finding Fulfillment (2020). He has also written numerous novels, including seven novels in the Liebermann Papers historical mystery series. The Liebermann books have been translated into fourteen languages and adapted for television as the internationally successful TV series Vienna Blood (2019).
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.