Madness and Civilization
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, a 1961 book by Michel Foucault, is an examination of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, p
The Librairie Plon edition
In the 17th-century Age of Reason, insane and socially undesirable people would end at The Madhouse. (Francisco Goya, 1812–1819)
A Rake's Progress no. viii: the inmates at Bedlam Asylum, by William Hogarth
Thomas Szasz
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Thomas Stephen Szasz was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. A d
Madness and Civilization
…of the "general upheaval of values in the 1960s." That the history Foucault presents in Madness and Civilization is similar to, but more profound than The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) by Thomas Szasz. Anti-psychiatry…
Szasz in 2010