--- product_id: 11630919 title: "Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis – A Groundbreaking History of the Intellectual Endeavor that Transformed Twentieth Century Thought" brand: "george makari" price: "$43.70" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/11630919-revolution-in-mind-the-creation-of-psychoanalysis-a-groundbreaking-history store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis – A Groundbreaking History of the Intellectual Endeavor that Transformed Twentieth Century Thought **Brand:** george makari **Price:** $43.70 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis – A Groundbreaking History of the Intellectual Endeavor that Transformed Twentieth Century Thought by george makari - **How much does it cost?** $43.70 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/11630919-revolution-in-mind-the-creation-of-psychoanalysis-a-groundbreaking-history) ## Best For - george makari enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted george makari brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis ## Images ![Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis – A Groundbreaking History of the Intellectual Endeavor that Transformed Twentieth Century Thought - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71chpaAIKsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Revolution Rusting in the Weeds *by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016* Its difficult not to gush over this great narrative. George Makari's overview of the organic developmentof Freudian psychology and its various offshoots is enormously satisfying. Most interesting is the observation thatmany of the early theorists made useful innovations in concept or techniques, and then tried to inflate theobservations into central dogma. p. 437 "It was by now a familiar story in the history of psychoanalysis. The brilliance ofmany of Klein's innovations and observations might be ignored or lost because she was unable to restrain her claims , whichswelled far beyond the observations that first gave them life."Importantly, Makai gives more than anecdotal treatment to Wilhelm Reich and his therapeutic resistance analysis technique innovations.Reich was the inevitable psycho-social result of Freud's discovery of irrational behavior rooted in the unconscious. Makai shows the contextof Reich's 'character armoring' theory that emerged from dealing with real patients in the Vienna and Berlin clinics--not by deduction from theoretical principals like the 'death wish' theory Freud adopted.Like gears that could not be disengaged, the discovery that societal and familial sexual and emotional repression produced life limiting characterarmor led Reich to seek to treat political formations with resistance therapy techniques. Reich emerges as one of the few founding minds ofpsychoanalysis that dared to 'poke the hornet's nest' p. 399 and analyze a society that resulted from repressed people. Reich's 'Mass Psychology of Fascism' is excellent companion reading for lovers of Allen Furst or Phillip Keer novels that capture the same historical period asfree loving Berlin was crushed under the fascist steam roller. What Reich observed and lucidly analyzed in 1933 could equally apply to the political phenomena of Donald Trump in 2016. A great reservoir of repressed frustration and anger can be tapped in a mass psychological appeal to fascism with brutal results. Makai deftly handles the narrative that marches the concepts of Freudian psychology from theories in philosophy to therapeutic techniques and discoveries with unavoidable social political implications.Like Melanie Klein, Carl Jung and others, Reich's theorizing carried him into territory others refused to follow. Makai's overview does not detail the further exploration of Reich's work in later bio-energetic analysis which practical application brought and still brings significant psychological relief to many. Anyone can discover that a good massage that unlocks chronically tense muscles releases associated memories. There are too few practitioners to systematically unlock frozen character structures in the public at large. We may pay the price for abandoning Reich's dream of a Sex-Pol that normalized and protected adolescent emotional life from mystical colonization. This is an excellent book.There is something narcotic about plunging deep into the human unconsciousand then rising to the surface with pearls of wisdom. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant, comprehensive *by S***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022* None of my psychology courses tied together the intricate skein of authors and theory development that this book clarifies. Take your time and enjoy. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A Useful Reference to Quarrels and Schisms *by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2008* Psychoanalysis, like the religious movement of Plymouth Brethren, not to mention the politics of International Trotskyism, is a movement of schisms. "Orthodox Freudianism," Reichism, Reikism (don't confuse these !), Horneyism, Jungism ... but I begin to bore you, right ? This book tells us a lot about these schisms, a little about Freud, and very little about the intellectual history of modern psychology. So yes, it's a useful reference book, especially for those who care about, well, the difference between Reich and Reik.So far so good. But there is also a certain sloppiness about the production of this book that I for one found annoying. There is no bibliography, although the notes carry bibliographic information. The photos would be so much more enjoyable if they had been printed on separate glossy pages, which is the norm for quality books. The English language is not always quite given its due: does the author know, for example, what the singular is of "phenomena" (p. 416) ? And then we are told, quite a bit, about "Aryan" psychoanalysts (pp. 410, 417, etc). What are Aryans ? I thought that only Nazis think that there are such people.Yes, research libraries need to buy this book. 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