Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

by George Makari

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An alternative history of the work of Freud and his supporters traces the development of psychoanalysis in Europe, placing the movement's origins against a backdrop of the nineteenth century while profiling Freud as a creative, interdisciplinary thinker.

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I was interested in reading this book because it had excellent reviews and because I was intrigued by the idea of learning more about how the key ideas of psychoanalysis developed. Unfortunately for me, the book is probably aimed at people who are more interested in the history of the people who created psychoanalysis and their relationships, competitions, battles, etc., than in the psychological ideas themselves. I found myself skimming much of the book because I just couldn't get interested in the almost play-by-play descriptions of letters, meetings, etc.

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George Makari's Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis was published in 2008 to international acclaim. Makari is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and adjunct professor at both Rockefeller University and Columbia show more University's Psychoanalytic Center. He lives in New York City. show less

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
150.19Philosophy and PsychologyPsychologyEmotions, Relationships, & FamilyTheory And InstructionSystems, schools, viewpoints
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BF173 .M35652Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyPsychologyPsychoanalysis
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