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George Jack Makari

ジョージ・ジャック・マカリ

George Jack Makari

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
New York (Manhattan) → Weill Cornell Medical College (New York)

Career

Occupations
psychiatrist, historian, author, professor
Active Years
1987-
Affiliations
Weill Cornell Medical College, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, Payne Whitney Clinic
Influenced By
Sigmund Freud, Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet

Education

Brown University
College (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Degree: BA
Period: 1978–1982
Year of Graduation: 1982
Country: United States
Weill Cornell Medical College (Cornell University Medical College)
Medical School / Department of Medicine
Degree: M.D.
Period: 1983–1987
Year of Graduation: 1987
Country: United States
Completed psychiatric residency at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Psychoanalytic training
Period: 1994–1997
Year of Graduation: 1997
Country: United States
Completed clinical psychoanalytic training

Awards

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (nonfiction)
2022
Work: Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
Category: ノンフィクション
Organization: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Result: winner
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award
2023
Work: Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
Organization: International Psychoanalytical Association
Result: winner
Benjamin Rush Award
2017
Work: body of work
Organization: American Psychiatric Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

2008 history of psychiatry / intellectual history

Examines the creation of psychoanalysis as both an intellectual project and a social movement, focusing on the formation, schisms, and reconfiguration of early psychoanalytic communities and Freud's interactions with contemporary psychopathology and related fields.

history of psychoanalysiscommunity formationschisms in movements

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

2015 intellectual history / history of the mind

A synthetic history tracing how the concept of the 'mind' emerged in the West from the Enlightenment onward, exploring how responses to crises in religious authority and developments in science contributed to new ways of understanding inner life.

history of the mindEnlightenmentrelationship of religion and science

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

2021 history / social/intellectual history

Traces the conceptual history of xenophobia since the late nineteenth century, examining how philosophers, social scientists, psychologists, and political commentators have sought to explain hatred of strangers and how xenophobia connects to nationalism, migration, and violence.

xenophobianationalismmigration and exclusion

Bibliography

  • Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (2008)
  • Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (2015)
  • Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
scholarly, archival-based narrativesynthesizes intellectual history in accessible prose
Recurring Motifs
formation of psychoanalysis and institutionsconceptual history of the mindintersection of expert knowledge and society

Legacy

A widely cited scholar in the history of psychiatry and the history of the mind, praised for comprehensive archival research on psychoanalysis and the modern concept of mind. Has contributed to education, archival development, and public intellectual discourse.

Academic Societies

  • American Psychiatric Association

Archives

  • Oskar Diethelm Library (held at the DeWitt Wallace Institute, Weill Cornell)

Quotes

  • “Part soul and part machine but fully neither.”
    Source: Soul Machine (2015)

Trivia

  • Son of medical researcher Jack Makari.
  • Served as Director and Attending Psychiatrist of a sliding-scale Psychotherapy Clinic at Payne Whitney Clinic from 1991 to 2016.
  • Personal website: www.georgemakari.com