An award-winning scholar and writer delivers a definitive, radically new history of Freud, his disciples, and the tumultuous history of the movement that has had a profound impact on the modern world. Illustrations throughout.
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An award-winning scholar and writer delivers a definitive, radically new history of Freud, his disciples, and the tumultuous history of the movement that has had a profound impact on the modern world. Illustrations throughout.
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Groundbreaking, insightful, and compulsively readable, Revolution in Mind goes beyond myth and polemic to give us the story of one of the most controversial and important intellectual endeavors of the twentieth century. In this masterful history, George Makari demonstrates how a new way of thinking about inner life coalesced and won followers who spread this body of thought throughout the West. Along the way he introduces the reader to a fascinating array of characters, many of whom have been long ignored or forgotten.
Revolution in Mind is a brilliant, engaging, and radically new work--the first ever to account fully for the making of psychoanalysis.
Critic Reviews
“"The best informed history of psychoanalysis. Freud's context is more fully elaborated by Makari than ever before."”
"George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind." -- Paul Auster
-- Harold Bloom
"An excellent, fascinating, and definitive history of psychoanalysis up to 1945. A tour de force." -- Murray Gell Mann
About the Author
George Makari is director of Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College, adjunct associate professor at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Center. His writings on the history of psychoanalysis have won numerous awards. He lives in New York City
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