Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis
George Makari
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$19.99
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publish Date
December 30, 2008
Pages
624
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.0 X 1.2 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780061346620
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About the Author
George Makari is a psychiatrist, historian, and author most recently of Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, he lives in New York City.
Reviews
"An excellent, fascinating, and definitive history of psychoanalysis up to 1945. A tour de force."--Murray Gell Mann
"George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind."--Paul Auster
"The best informed history of psychoanalysis. Freud's context is more fully elaborated by Makari than ever before."--Harold Bloom
"George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind."--Paul Auster
"The best informed history of psychoanalysis. Freud's context is more fully elaborated by Makari than ever before."--Harold Bloom