MICHEL FOUCAULT Psychiatric Power LECTURES AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE, 1973-74 Edited by Jacques Lagrange General Editors: Frangois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson TRANSLATED BY GRAHAM BURCHELL This book is supported by the French Ministry of Forvign Allairs, as part of the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London, REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE (www.lrenchbooknews.om)PSYCHIATRIC POWER © Editions du Seuil/Gallimard, 2003. Edition established under the direction of Francois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana, by Jacques Lagrange. Translation © Graham Burchell, 2006. Introduction © Arnold |, Davidson, 2006. All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN- 13: 978-1-4039-6922-1 hardback ISBN-10: 1-4039-6922-1 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 0987654321 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and EastbourneCONTENTS Foreword: Frangois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson Translator’s Note one two 7 NOVEMBER 1973 The space of the asylum and disciplinary order. ~ Therapeutic process and “moral treatment.” ~ Scenes of curing. ~ Changes made by the course from the approach of Histoire de la folie: 1. From an analysis of “representations” to an “analytics of power”; 2. From “violence” to the “microphysics of power”; 3. From “institutional regularities” to the “arrangements” of power. 14 NOVEMBER 1973 Scene of a cure: George III. From the “macrophysics of sovereignty” to the “microphysics of disciplinary power.” ~ The new figure of the madman. ~ Little encyclopedia of scenes of cures. ~ The practice of hypnosis and hysteria. ~~ The psychoanalytic scene; the antipsychiatric scene. ~~ Mary Barnes at Kingsley Hall. ~~ Manipulation of madness and stratagem of truth: Mason Cox. ix 19