George Makari

George Makari is the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Adjunct Professor at Rockefeller University and Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Makari writes and lectures widely on the mind sciences and the lessons to be learned from the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He has published numerous scholarly articles as well as essays for the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time, and The Lancet. In 2008, he published Revolution in Mind, The Creation of Psychoanalysis, a history of that field’s origins that won the Gradiva Award and the Hartmann Award, received over 80 reviews, and has been the subject of seven scholarly symposiums. In 2015, he published Soul Machine: the Invention of the Modern Mind, which was chosen as one of the year’s best books in The Guardian and was called “brilliant,” “essential reading” in the Wall Street Journal. In 2017, he was awarded the Benjamin Rush Award by the American Psychiatric Association for his historical work. Dr. Makari is director of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Clinic at the Payne Whitney Clinic and maintains an active psychiatric practice. He lives in New York City.