Historian, essayist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, George Makari, MD is professor of psychiatry and director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. His latest book, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia was the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prize, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Bloomberg Book of the Year. It was preceded by two award-winning histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis. His books have been or are being translated into thirteen languages. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many scholarly and literary journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University. He teaches psychodynamic theory to the Payne Whitney Clinic residents and maintains a private practice in New York City.

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