George Makari is the director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is the author of Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (2008), Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (2015), and Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (2021).
George Makari
Articles
A Different Language: A Conversation with Percival Everett
George Makari speaks with novelist Percival Everett.
On Kinds of Minds and Kinds of Racism
To understand what kind of racism we face, argues George Makari, we need to understand the type of mind that undergirds it.
The Invention of “Xenophobia”
George Makari describes xenophobia’s complicated history as a concept, and reveals the curious role of a lone stenographer.
At Home in the Unseen World
Psychiatrist and historian George Makari remembers his father, Jack Makari, a pioneer of cancer immunology and microbiology.
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