(Ebook) Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari ISBN 9780061346620, 0061346624

(Ebook) Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari ISBN 9780061346620, 0061346624

Winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis' 2009 Gradiva Award for best historical work & the 2009 Heinz Hartmann Award of the New York Psychoanalytic Society for most outstanding publication  

      Based on new archival materials & a decade of research, Revolution in Mind is a radically new history of psychoanalysis. It tells the story of the birth, development, & death of psychoanalysis in Europe between 1870 & 1945, integrating these chapters into a coherent narrative for the first time. How did Freudian Theory come together as a body of ideas, & how did these ideas attract followers who spread this model of mind throughout the West?        Makari contextualises Freud's early psychological work amid the great changes occurring in late-nineteenth-century European science, philosophy, & medicine, showing how Freud was a creative, inter-disciplinary synthesizer whose immersion in pre-existing domains of study led to the creation of Freudian Theory. He looks at how Freud's followers built a heterogeneous movement in the years leading to 1914, at the growth of the movement, & its subsequent collapse with the departures of Bleuler, Jung, & Adler.   
      Finally, Makari examines the critical, but neglected, Weimar period, when there was an attempt to rebuild a more pluralistic psychoanalytic community. This reformation resulted in the broader theoretical reach of psychoanalysis & its greater acceptance across the Western world outside Europe, where the rise of fascism was to lead to the destruction of psychoanalysis & the culture that once sustained it. 
      George Makari is a psychiatrist, historian, & author most recently of Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute & professor of psychiatry at Weill Corn