Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis » (Reprint)

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

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.

The New York Times - George Prochnik

…[a] lucid history of the rise of psychoanalysis…Rather than providing yet another biography of Freud, Makari maps out the Freud family tree with all its thorny branches, its disciples and dissenters. Even if psychoanalysis is increasingly overshadowed by neurobiology and cognitive psychology, Makari argues that the language of Freudianism remains the lingua franca for some of our most vexing questions: How can aspects of the mind be unknown to itself? How is it possible that another person can be more aware of our thoughts than we are? Assuming such knowledge is possible, how can it be deployed by a doctor to ease our pain and bolster the felicity of our engagement with the outside world? Makari's book projects a pleasing orderliness onto a tangled tale.

Prologue     1
Making Freudian Theory
A Mind for Science     9
City of Mirrors, City of Dreams     53
The Unhappy Marriage of Psyche and Eros     85
Making the Freudians
Vienna     129
Zurich     179
Freudians International     213
Integration/Disintegration     239
Making Psychoanalysis
Everything May Perish     295
Searching for a New Center     321
A New Psychoanalysis     367
The Psycho-Politics of Freedom     405
Epilogue     467
Acknowledgments     487
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources     489
Notes     493
Permissions     577
Illustration Credits     579
Index     581