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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tough read,
By grouchy (exiled into purgatory. for real.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mental Illness and Psychology (Paperback)
Foucault has always interested me. This book is a hard read. It is an early book. It is a thin book. It takes a few days to chew through. The fairly accurate one sentence summary is: The definition of being normal relative to being mentally ill reflects philosophy more than psychiatry. Recommended.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A GREAT book, an early work,
By Espada (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mental Illness and Psychology (Paperback)
This is one of the earliest book of Michel Foucault. His ideas of power/knowdlege are not the central point of this text (for they are developed later in his works) but you can start to feel them. This book is about psychology and psychiatry and how those disciplines derived their methods from biology and medical pathology and it's consecuences on psychological theories.
This book plays with the notion of contradiction and the notion of paradox within the human psyche. In this book, Foucault offers a solution for the way that psychology should "diagnose" and produce theory for "mental illnes". He also analyzes the notion of mental illness and the medical discourse that makes posible to use such incorrect or paradoxical notions. This is a GREAT book. |
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Mental Illness and Psychology by Michel Foucault (Paperback - October 14, 1987)
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