Historian, essayist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist, George Makari is the author of “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia,” winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, “Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind,” a 2015 Guardian Best Book of the Year and “Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis.” His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Raritan, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He conducts a podcast with artists and writers on the nature of the imagination. Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, Dr. Makari is professor of psychiatry at WCMC and a visiting researcher at Rockefeller University. He is a graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.