Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Foucault is an brilliant Historian who charts the progress or lack of it of the treatment of the mentally ill. Read to be disturbed at how they were treated. ( )

I have made a selection from the first chapter of this text, combining both translation, along with a gallery of images here: http://ahistoryofthepresentananthology.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/the-history-of-ma... ( )

Ugh...this book was thick! Luckily, though, there are some prize nuggets of psychological and philosophical history buried in there. Foucault does an excellent job of going through all the relevant source material, but his writing could use some loosening up...

http://lifelongdewey.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/362-madness-and-civilization-by-mi... ( )

A history of what society calls madness.

germinal! ( )