George J. Makari
Director, Cornell’s DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts
George J. Makari is Director of Cornell’s DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts, and Professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College. He is a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University, and a faculty member of Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Makari is the author of Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. His first book, the widely acclaimed Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis, received the Gradiva Prize and the Hartmann Award, and was called the best history of its kind by Harold Bloom. His essays have won numerous honors and have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Time, and the Lancet. He is also the author of the upcoming book, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia. Dr. Makari attended Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. He lives with his family in New York City.