George Makari

Who is George Makari?

George Jack Makari is a historian, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. He serves as Director of The Institute for the History of Psychiatry and their Oskar Diethelm Library at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he is also an Associate Professor. In addition, he is the Director of the Long Term Psychotherapy Clinic, a part of the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. Makari is best known for his work on transference theory, seduction theory, and the history of psychoanalytic communities. Makari's work has been widely reviewed and is very well known among historians of psychoanalysis, particularly his most sustained treatment of Freudian psychoanalytic communities: Revolution in Mind, The Creation of Psychoanalysis.