[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

[Carl Remick]

>From: bitch at pulpculture.org
>
>BTW, didn't the sociologist of deviance or maybe he was a psychologist --
>Laing maybe? -- have a lot to do with th enotion that most of what was
>called mental illness in the 60s was socially constructed -- a way to
>marginalized and warehouse people?

Are you talking about R. D. Laing 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_David_Laing> or Thomas Szasz 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szasz>?


>... I recall a grad stud colleague being into
>his work. She is now an FBI agent, ditching PhD studies for career ("real")
>employment.

Well, the FBI is certainly one of the world's foremost loony bins, and any 
job there much merits the scare-quote qualifier "real."  But for any 
connoisseur of human weirdness, FBI agents would be a great bunch to consort 
with.

Carl

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