Foucault an Introduction - Part 1, Psychiatry, Power, Oppression, Depression, Philosophy

Michel Foucault: Biography + Theories about Power and Psychiatry

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[Timurito1]

What is this music in the beginning ? Please reply :)

[UnderstandingTheSelf]

The music is Edith Piaf :-)

[UnderstandingTheSelf]

Share your opinions about Michel Foucault! ;-)

[auntieannie2]

Interesting youth photos, but horrible, yellow, incorrect overlay, maiking the 2nd part of the clip into antipsychiatry propaganda. The actual translation was covered over with that yellow BS. Too bad, I hope viewers will look at the unadulterated videos and form their own opinion about Foucaults view on power.

[hejafish]

Thanks for the interesting introduction to Foucault.. fascinating and frightening! Part 2 coming up!....

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@toulouse666

Say you do drugs. What is society's response to this? "You are doing something non-conform, you shouldn't do that, but don't worry, we will lock you up and make you better". In other words, they try to normalize you. In psychology, the line between curing and normalizing is very thin, if it even exists. But few medical scientists will ever agree in any case with your opinion on psychology.

But this is philosophy anyway, so no such thing as an absolute truth exists.

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@toulouse666

... as Boorse describes disease. This even poses problems for physiological pathologies, because some deviations are supposed to happen in a healthy person, such as fever, which is a "healthy response to an unhealthy situation". Another example are cholesterol values, which may deviate and yet not pose a threat in some individuals. So you can imagine what problems this definition of "health" gives in psychology, where pathologies aren't nearly as measurable...

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@toulouse666

Being a medical scientist myself, I can tell you I had classes in university on Scientific Philosophy precisely to avoid such dogmatic thinking thinking and to stay open-minded.

It would be obvious that someone who is sick requires help, and should get so if he seeks it. However, the question that we have spent that entire semester arguing about is "What is healthy?". In most cases in modern science, it is quite dogmatically a deviation from the statistical norm...

[toulouse666]

This is ass backwards retarded.

Psychiatrists are Medical Doctors that make DIAGNOSIS based on the medical "science" of the day.

Psychologists are merely glorified witch doctors/shamans with a 100% useless/meaningless "college degree" (i.e.: A piece of paper).

Heath Ledger didn't die because of "psychiatric drugs", he died because he was an improperly supervised depressive addict that overdosed, period.

Etc. etc. and obviously, etc.

[agvplnt]

are those really Foucault's notes at 00:39? they are in Swedish! he apparently worked at the university of uppsala for a few years, so his knowing swedish i guess is not strange.. but writing in swedish.. it's interesting...

after a little more thought it does not seem all that strange to me anymore, i use all of the languages i know to think and when i take notes.. including strictly visual means. so. nevermind me :D

[8bobthebuilder]

Foucault is an epigone.

[tigerbaiter1]

The fact is that some people DO become mentally ill and DO pose a threat to themselves and others. It's demented to suggest otherwise.

[sgneal13]

why are you putting your words over foucaults?