Description: 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.
Brief description:
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
Review Quotes:
"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
"An excellent, fascinating, and definitive history of psychoanalysis up to 1945. A tour de force." - Murray Gell Mann
"A lucid history. . . . Makari's book projects a pleasing orderliness onto a tangled tale." - The New York Times Book Review