Revolution in Mind - The Creation of Psychoanalysis

Zusatztext "An excellent! fascinating! and definitive history of psychoanalysis up to 1945. A tour de force." Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: George Makari
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9780061346620
• ISBN: 978-0-06-134662-0
• Pagine: 624
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Psychiatry, History of Medicine, History of Science, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Psychotherapy: counselling, Medical profession, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Medicolegal issues, Psychiatric and mental disorders, PHILOSOPHY: MODERN, PSYCHOLOGY: History, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, HISTORY: Study & Teaching, SCIENCE: History, PSYCHOLOGY: Psychotherapy / Counseling, MEDICAL: Health Policy, MEDICAL: Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL: History, PSYCHOLOGY: Movements / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY: Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Philosophy / Modern