[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Jun 3 10:29:47 PDT 2007


bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:


> 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? And that it was the imposition of
> questionable social norms and values on people that ought to be questioned,
> not anything real about mental illness at all? Can't recall his name but he
> was quite popular in the 70s and I recall a grad stud colleague being into
> his work. She is now an FBI agent, ditching PhD studies for career ("real")
> employment.

Thomas Szasz?

Miles



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