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

Reviews

"George Makari has written nothing less than a history of the modern mind." -- Paul Auster"The best informed history of psychoanalysis. Freud's 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