Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote: << Some might find the article cited below interesting. It gave me some ideas for class. MADNESS IN THE FIRST PERSON: Narratives of mental illness written by patients, rather than their doctors, offer extraordinary insights into the condition and its treatment, writes Gail A. Hornstein, a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke College. -- SEE http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i20/20b00701.htm>>
Gail Hornstein writes: "Psychiatry has a peculiar history compared with the rest of medicine, partly because it is so closely tied to a particular institution, the mental hospital. Madness has clearly existed throughout human history, but there was no organized field of psychiatry before the 18th century, when what Foucault called "the great confinement" spread across England and France." In one of his books Roy Porter has denied that a "great confinement" occurred in England in the way that Foucault contends. Sorry, I don't have the reference, but in *The Killing of History* (pp. 145-148) Keith Windschuttle cites scholarly evidence which rebuts Foucault's account in relation to England, and French scholarship which demonstrates serious chronological inaccuracies that undermine Foucault's psychiatric "narrative" in relation to France. Allen Esterson London --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
