Psychiatric Power Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

by Foucault, Michel; Davidson, Arnold I.; Burchell, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781403969224
• ISBN10: 1403969221
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

"Madness and Civilization undertook the archaeology 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. Michel Foucault's 1973/1974 course, Psychiatric Power, pursues this history whilst reorienting his project: in this course Foucault sketches the genealogy of psychiatry, of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. In order to give an account of this form of psychiatric and medical knowledge about madness, one must start from an analysis of the apparatuses and the techniques of power that organized the treatment of the mad in the period that spans from Philippe Pinel to Jean-Martin Charcot. Psychiatry is not born as a consequence of progress in the knowledge of madness but from the disciplinary apparatuses within which the regime imposed on madness is organized." "From this point of view, Psychiatric Power continues the project of a history of the human sciences. The course concludes at the end of the nineteenth century at the moment of the double "depsychiatrization" of madness, now dispersed between the neurologist and the psychoanalyst. The summary of the course at the end of this volume contains the core of what Foucault perhaps didn't have time to discuss in the course itself. Taken in its entirety, Psychiatric Power goes so far as to propose a genealogy of the antipsychiatric movements which so marked the 1960s."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Michael Foucault is acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s.

Series editor Arnold I. Davidson teaches philosophy, divinity, comparative literature, and history of science at the University of Chicago, and is executive director of the journal Critical Inquiry. He is co-editor of the anthology Michel Foucault: Philosophie.

Translator Graham Burchell has written essays on Michel Foucault and was an editor of The Foucault Effect.

Table of Contents

Foreword * Introduction * Translator's Note * 7 November 1973 * 14 November 1973 * 21 November 1973 * 28 November 1973 * 5 December 1973 * 12 December 1973 * 19 December 1973 * 9 January 1974 * 16 January 1974 * 23 January 1974 * 30 January 1974 * 6 February 1974 * Course Summary * Course Context * Index of Notions * Index of Names * Index of Places

Foreword * Introduction * Translator's Note * 7 November 1973 * 14 November 1973 * 21 November 1973 * 28 November 1973 * 5 December 1973 * 12 December 1973 * 19 December 1973 * 9 January 1974 * 16 January 1974 * 23 January 1974 * 30 January 1974 * 6 February 1974 * Course Summary * Course Context * Index of Notions * Index of Names * Index of Places

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