Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis - Softcover

Makari, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715639625 ISBN 13: 9780715639627

Verlag: Duckworth, 2010

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How did Freudian Theory come together as a body of ideas, and 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, and 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, and its subsequent collapse with the departures of Bleuler, Jung and 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 and its greater acceptance across the Western world outside Europe, where the rise of fascism was to lead to the destruction of psychoanalysis and the culture that once sustained it.

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George Makari M.D. is Director of Cornell's Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College, and Visiting Associate Professor at Rockefeller University.

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• Verlag: Duckworth
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0715639625
• ISBN 13: 9780715639627
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624
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