http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/#comment-5343 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:28:03 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/#comment-5343 Szasz is different from the “anti-psychiatrists”. He has actually written a book titled “Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared”. An excerpt is here:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/szasz2.1.1.html

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/#comment-5342 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:33:48 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/fifty-years-of-madness-and-civilisation/#comment-5342 I am one of a tiny minority — indeed, I am not even sure there are any others — who thinks Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic is significantly more important in unpacking social and cultural frames of illness in Western society than any of his other texts. I include mental illness in this characterization, and in fact I myself apply a Foucauldian frame to the problem of pain.
I am also confident that TBOC is on much firmer and sounder historiographical ground than some of his more-analyzed works.

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