Psychiatric Power : Lectures at the College De France, 1973-1974 (Michel Foucault: Lectures at the College De France) -- Paperback

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.