Madness : the invention of an idea / Michel Foucault ; translated by Alan Sheridan.

Maladie mentale et psychologie. English

New York ; London : Harper Perennial, 2011.

146 pages ; 18 cm.

"This work was first published in French under the title Maladie Mentale et Personalité ... Revised and republished as Maladie Mentale et Psychologie."--T.p. verso.

English translation originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1976.

Mental medicine and organic medicine -- I: The psychological dimensions of mental illness -- Mental illness and evolution -- Mental illness and individual history -- Mental illness and existence -- II: Madness and culture -- The historical constitution of mental illness -- Madness: an overall structure.