Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault

Gordon, Colin

doi:10.1177/095269519000300102

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“…Muir Gray's challenge to medicine to “adapt to the ‘postmodern environment’ “3 applies particularly to psychiatry, and while some question the Foucauldian critique of psychiatry, there is a general acceptance that his rejection of a simple “progressivist” version of psychiatry's development is justified 19. Psychiatry can no longer ignore the implications of this analysis.…”

Section: A New Direction For Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health

Bracken

2001

BMJ

187

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Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health

Bracken

2001

BMJ

187

111

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“…83 I am very convinced by Colin Gordon's defence of the work, and intelligent consideration of the objections, as well as the dialogue that he engages in with those critics in Rewriting the History of Madness. 84 However, for the purposes of my argument here it is not necessary for Foucault to be completely correct; like Nietzsche in the Genealogy of Morals, all Foucault needs to establish for my argument to work is that these experiences of madness have been substantively different from each other, and that the underlying metaphysics of the subject-object-discourse relationship have been prone to transformation across epistemes. 85 This accomplishes several things in transforming the subjectivity problem into an epistemic critique of any potential psychiatric science.…”

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Foucault and the Madness of Classifying Our Madness

Ninnis

2016

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This paper notes the re-ignited controversy surrounding the publication of a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), suggesting that the early work of Michel Foucault can explain why the mere diagnosis of or criteria for mental illness remains a heated flashpoint. In particular, it argues that Foucault articulates a common issue within the philosophical foundations of psychiatry and psychology that the paper terms the 'subjectivity problem.' It observes, using Foucault's work, that these disciplines treat not just simple objects but complex subjects that are capable of interacting with that labelling and who are shaped by it. Drawing on the related work of Ian Hacking on kind-making as world-making, the article fleshes out why the subjectivity problem remains persistent within psychiatry and psychology as forms of knowledge, preventing them from operating as many commentators might desire them to -as pure and objective sciences. Finally, the paper reflects on the relationship of psychiatry and psychology as forms of knowledge, the manner in which they constitute their objects, and how this might shape the biopolitical episteme in which we find ourselves today.

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“…They argue that, because Foucault made some historical errors, his work can be dismissed. It is worth noting that Gordon has mounted a powerful defence of Foucault's history (Gordon, 1990). For postpsychiatry the most important feature of Foucault's work concerns the question of ethics.…”

Section: Postpsychiatrymentioning

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Critical psychiatry in practice

Thomas¹,

Bracken²

2004

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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The ideas of critical psychiatry are influencing a growing number of psychiatrists in Britain and elsewhere. In this article we examine the origins and development of critical psychiatry over the past 25 years, through the work of philosophers such as Foucault and of critical social theorists such as Ingleby, Miller and Rose. We outline the important differences between critical psychiatry and antipsychiatry. Finally, we examine the current status of critical psychiatry, and what is called postpsychiatry. We regard both as an attempt by practising psychiatrists to engage with service users' concerns about psychiatry, with government policies that stress democracy, citizenship and the importance of social and cultural contexts in health care, and with what might broadly be described as postmodernism.

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Histoire de la folie : an unknown book by Michel Foucault

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health

Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health

Foucault and the Madness of Classifying Our Madness

Critical psychiatry in practice

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