Psychiatric Power Lectures at the Coll}}ge de France, 1973--1974 [Paperback]

InPsychiatric 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 seminalMadness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge.Madness and Civilizationundertook 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 Powercontinues 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 Powerbrings fresh access and light to the work of one of the past century's preeminent thinkers.

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.

[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists. The New York Times Book Review

[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions.... [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture. The New York Review of Books

Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. . . . [He carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture. The Nation

Foreword: Fran?ois Ewald and Alessandro Montana

Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson

Translator's Note

One: 7 November 1973
The space of the asylum and disciplinary order.  Therapeutic process and moral treatment.  Scenes of curing.  Changes madelS�