On the legitimacy of psychiatric power

Metamedicine ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Szasz
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Power

scholarly journals The Genesis of Foucault’s Genealogy of Racism: Accumulating Men and Managing Illegalisms

2018 ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Alex Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Social Conditions ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
Psychiatric Power

Foucault’s contribution to the critical theorization of race and racism has been much debated. Most commentators, however, have focused on his most direct remarks on the topic, which are found in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and in the lecture course “Society Must Be Defended.” This paper argues that those remarks should be reread in light of certain moves Foucault makes in earlier lecture courses, especially The Punitive Society and Psychiatric Power. Although the earlier courses do not always explicitly address the theme of race, the concepts of the “accumulation of men” and the differential “management of illegalisms” developed in them immensely enrich Foucault’s outline of a genealogy of racism. They also permit a clarification of the problem to which the concept of “state racism” is an answer, and they provide the key for understanding the wider social conditions of state racism. The guiding thread linking these earlier courses to the later material is the problem of a genealogy of logics of enmity. At the same time, the earlier courses make explicit the link between these logics and the development of capitalist society.

scholarly journals ‘No “Sane” Person Would Have Any Idea’: Patients’ Involvement in Late Nineteenth-century British Asylum Psychiatry

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Royal Hospital ◽  
Lay Perceptions ◽  
Junior Colleague ◽  
Psychiatric Power ◽  
Insight Into

In his 1895 textbook,Mental Physiology, Bethlem Royal Hospital physician Theo Hyslop acknowledged the assistance of three fellow hospital residents. One was a junior colleague. The other two were both patients: Walter Abraham Haigh and Henry Francis Harding. Haigh was also thanked in former superintendent George Savage’s bookInsanity and Allied Neuroses(1884). In neither instance were the patients identified as such. This begs the question: what role did Haigh and Harding play in asylum theory and practice? And how did these two men interpret their experiences, both within and outside the asylum? By focusing on Haigh and Harding’s unusual status, this paper argues that the notion of nineteenth-century ‘asylum patient’ needs to be investigated by paying close attention to specific national and institutional circumstances. Exploring Haigh and Harding’s active engagement with their physicians provides insight into this lesser-known aspect of psychiatry’s history. Their experience suggests that, in some instances, representations of madness at that period were the product of a two-way process of negotiation between alienist and patient. Patients, in other words, were not always mere victims of ‘psychiatric power’; they participated in the construction and circulation of medical notions by serving as active intermediaries between medical and lay perceptions of madness.

Psychiatric Power

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Foucault
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Power

Primum Nocere (First to Harm) Countertransference and Poisonous Pedagogy: A Hypothesis to Explain Why Psychiatrists Promote Dangerous, Harmful, and Ineffectual Neuroleptic Drugs

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Joseph Tarantolo
Keyword(s):  
Endocrine System ◽  
Biological Psychiatry ◽  
First Line ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Psychiatric Power

This article will briefly review the case that multigenerations of neuroleptic (NL) drugs are dangerous: causing brain damage, shortening life span, disrupting the endocrine system, interfering with cognitive function, and are half as likely to have a positive long-term outcome as are nonmedical approaches. Given this dismal record, the writer will address the question of why then are they the first line of treatment for seriously disturbed patients? This article will explore how a corrupt and corrupting system of pharmaceutical science and psychiatric power feeds the insecurities of psychotherapists who treat these patients. The author posits the theory that countertransferential phenomena, as elaborated by (Searles, 1979; Winnicott, 1949; and Miller, 1980) (hate, fear, guilt, powerlessness, inability to comfort, capitulation to manipulation, and rationalizations that delusions are biological rather than psychological phenomena), prevent the therapist from properly doing his job. This article will offer a working definition of acute psychosis as unexplored eccentric thinking that will support nonpharmacological psychotherapeutic intervention and distinguish between enlightened and unenlightened biological psychiatry.

scholarly journals La remise en question du pouvoir psychiatrique à Genève (1960–1980)

Gesnerus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-39
Author(s):  
Editors Gesnerus
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Amendments ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Psychiatric Power

The article deals with the development of the manner in which Geneva’s institutional psychiatric power is undermined during the 1970s. An attempt is thus made to situate the former disagreements into a broader perspective. thereby referring to the so-called «anti-psychiatry» of the 1960s. Following a presentation of the Bel-Air Clinic in regards to its context and reforms, the paper features an analysis of the criticisms and demands purported by alternative groups in matter of psychiatry. As such, the paper ranges from the denunciation of psychiatric repression in Canton Geneva, to the subsequent critical eruption of the reorganisation of the psychiatric structures, up to the legislative amendments of the 1980s.

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