Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read
I’ve unfortunately never engaged much with Foucault. I’ll get around to it eventually, but he wrote prior to the modern psychiatric era. Madness and Civilization was published in 1961, whereas much has changed in psychiatry, especially after the publication of the DSM-III. While I have no doubt some of his analyses would still be insightful, I’m interested in critiques of modern psychiatric practice, particularly with an emphasis on pharmacology and the reductive biomedical model, one that wasn’t really in vogue back in the 60’s, since the field was still under the control of Freudian Psychoanalysis.
