Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France)

Foucault, Michel

ISBN 10: 0312203314 / ISBN 13: 9780312203313

Published by Picador, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France)
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312203314
• ISBN 13: 9780312203313
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège 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.

About the Authors

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

His books include The Government of Self and Others, The Courage of Truth, The Birth of Biopolitics, and The Punitive Society.

Jacques Lagrange contributed to Psychiatric Power from Picador.

Graham Burchell (Translator) is the translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.

Arnold I. Davidson (Editor) is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and Professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. He lives in Chicago.