Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis - Hardcover

Makari, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715637592 ISBN 13: 9780715637593

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 2008

Synopsis

This history of psychoanalysis tells the story of its birth, development, and death in Europe between 1870 and 1945. It looks at how Freudian theory came together as a body of ideas, and how those ideas attracted followers who spread this model of the mind throughout the West.

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About the Author

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

From Publishers Weekly

Makari, the director of Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry, provides a comprehensive early history of psychoanalysis from 1895 to 1946. Although his early colleague Josef Breuer justifiably claimed that Freud was a man given to absolute and exclusive formulations, the great Viennese thinker's revolutionary understanding of the psyche evolved quite a bit, shifting away from psychosexual theory toward the tripartite division of the psyche (ego/id/superego) around 1920. Discussing the steadily growing community of psychoanalysts in Vienna (and, successively, in Zurich, Berlin and elsewhere), Makari notes that the Freudians could sometimes be intellectually insular and sectlike, resulting in the expulsion of Alfred Adler and C.G. Jung from Freud's circle between 1907 and 1913. Makari succinctly describes developments after Freud's influence peaked, especially the prominence of what came to be called ego psychology as developed by Heinz Hartmann, and the bitter intellectual dispute between Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. Makari tries to cover so much ground that some sections get a bit sketchy, but most of his ideas come across clearly in this challenging but rewarding intellectual history. 31 b&w photos. (Jan. 8)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715637592
• ISBN 13: 9780715637593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 613