Psychiatric Power/Knowledge By Michael Foucault

Lectures at the College de France
1973 – 1974

This astonishing book conveys collections of lectures delivered by Michael Foucault during the period of 1973-1974 at the College de France. Foucault was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the seventies and eighties, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

In the terminology of the College de France, the professors do not have students but only auditors.

Michael Foucault’s courses were held every Wednesday from January to march. The huge audiences made up of students, teachers, researchers, and the curious, including many who came from outside France, required two amphitheaters of College de France. These lectures are overwhelmingly informative and insightful.

This is absolutely a must own book, because of its richer content. It provides any reader with element of biographical, ideological, and political context about this extraordinary and controversial discipline (Psychiatry).

Psychiatric Power, the course delivered in 1973 and 1974, is edited by Jacques Lagrange