Description
In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Coll ge de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Psychiatric Power continues this discourse up to the end of the nineteenth century, and the double depsychiatrization of madness, now dispersed between the neurologist and the psychoanalyst. Presented in a conversational tone, Psychiatric Power brings fresh access and light to the work of one of the past century's preeminent thinkers.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 06/24/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780312203313
ISBN10: 0312203314
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Psychiatry | General
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Psychology | Psychopathology | General
About the Author
MICHEL FOUCAULT, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.