Archive for the 'Psychiatry' Category
Like Foucault and those who have followed him, I am interested in the “how” of power. This form of power is played out both between and within individuals, and it is made necessary and rendered visible by the irreducible materiality of psychopharmaceutical technologies. Revealing and tracing these inter- and intra-personal technologies is a crucial first […]
The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity. For that future world and that within it which will have put into question the values of sign, word, and writing, for […]
I was just taking a gander at Wiley Publishing’s 2005 version of Bipolar Disorder for Dummies, and I stumbled upon this amazing disclaimer on the copyright page. Putting aside any grandiose claims about mental illness and psychopharmaceuticals being sensitive issues these days, it’s downright hilarious. I don’t think that reproducing the the copyright page of […]
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