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

M. Foucault

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Aug 14, 2008 - Psychology - 383 pages

In this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

About the author

Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974; Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
• Author: M. Foucault
• Editor: A. Davidson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008
• ISBN: 1403986517, 9781403986511
• Length: 383 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Movements / General; Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology; Psychology / Applied Psychology; Psychology / Clinical Psychology; Social Science / Sociology / General