Revolution In Mind: The Creation Of Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

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.

Groundbreaking, insightful, and compulsively readable,Revolution in Mindgoes 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 Mindis a brilliant, engaging, and radically new work—the first ever to account fully for the making of psychoanalysis.

George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind. -Paul Auster

The best informed history of psychoanalysis. Freuds 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. . . . Makaris book projects a pleasing orderliness onto a tangled tale. -The New York Times Book Review