Psychiatric Power

by Michel Foucault

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312203314
• ISBN13: 9780312203313
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Bald man so smart. I no longer babyboy. I am babyman. I understand power relations.