Madness and civilization:a history of insanity in the age of reason /
Michel Foucault.
- London : Routledge, 1989
- xiv, 282 p. 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.