Revolution in Mind - by George Makari (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

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