Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

"'Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind... With an astounding breadth of knowledge and an unprecedented gift for synthesis, he takes the reader on a European journey that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the cataclysm of the Second World War... Revolution in Mind is moving story of what we lost when the old world went up in flames' - Paul Auster 'George Makari has provided a powerful synthesis that firmly roots psychoanalysis in intellectual and social history. The result is a highly readable, exciting adventure story with many unexpected turns. A definitive interpretation of psychoanalysis as a movement, a perspective, and a field, Revolution in Mind is destined to be a classic. A magisterial and towering achievement' - Jack D Barchas, M.D., Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Weill Cornell Medical College, member of the Institute for Medicine and former Dean of Neuroscience at U.C.L.A 'Revolution in Mind is an extraordinary book, quite unlike anything else that has been written... Makari's book will be the authoritative history on the making of Freudian psychoanalysis.' - Lawrence, Friedman, M.D., Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Quarterly 'There have been many books regarded as "histories" of psychoanalysis. This new and fundamental work by George Makari is different and unique... This book marks a nodal point in the history of the history of psychoanalysis... If one wants to know how psychoanalysis came to be, this is the place to begin.' - Robert Michels, M.D., Training and Supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Cornell University 'Makari possesses the deep requisite knowledge of the history, philosophy, and of course, the subject matter of psychoanalysis to carry out just such an examination of the roots of the Freudians. He has here accomplished that, perhaps for the first time anyone has done so, to an exemplary, satisfying, and most enjoyable degree.' - Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Ph.D., founder of chaos theory, MacArthur Fellow and Toyota Professor at Rockefeller University"