Foucault 4/13 Epilogue: Psychiatric Subjects, Political Subjects, Maneuvers and Counter-Maneuvers

By Bernard E. Harcourt The presentations by Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and Anna Lvovsky at Foucault 4/13 raised challenging questions concerning the political dimensions of Psychiatric Power. Linda Zerilli started us off by questioning whether the disempowered hysteric patient—predominantly middle-class women trapped in coercive… Continue Reading