Tallis writes with clarity and wit Tallis has distilled a wide range of psychological writing without oversimplifying the insights or reducing them to self-help platitudes . . . Tallis is an engaging writer and this is at heart a highly readable, often touching history of the talking cures and some of their most brilliant exponents -- Sebastian Faulks * Sunday Times * Psychology has its rogues and charlatans but this history reminds you it is a force for good . . . his writing is brisk and clear, his narrative is both thematic and roughly chronological, which is no easy feat of organisation, and studded with heavily disguised case histories -- David Aaronovitch * The Times * Few psychotherapists write with the clarity of Tallis . . . He also peppers the book with delightful nuggets from the psychological world . . . a gifted storyteller * The Tablet * An engaging and expansive tour of our modern-day therapeutic landscape * Times Literary Supplement *
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