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by Michel Foucault · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · 128 pages
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En 'Enfermedad mental y personalidad', Michel Foucault explora los problemas teóricos que enfrenta la patología mental, cuestionando si las nociones de enfermedad, síntoma y etiología son aplicables en el mismo sentido que en la patología orgánica. Foucault argumenta que la raíz de la patología mental no reside en una 'metapatología', sino en una reflexión sobre el ser humano y las ciencias humanas, liberada de abstracciones que oscurecen la verdad de la enfermedad y alienan al enfermo. Este texto desafía la división entre lo normal y lo patológico, invitando a una reflexión profunda sobre la condición humana y la enfermedad mental.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
