Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:08:46 +1000 (EST) From: c.holmes-AT-nepean.uws.edu.au (colin holmes) Subject: Re: Foucauldian examinations of The Market Yes, as someone who has worked in the mental health system in the UK and Australia since 1972, and as a student of the history of psychiatric services, I agree with you Doug. Despite the 'antipsychiatrists' and the 'consumer' movements, money was and still is the only deciding factor in these processes. As for Foucault - no impact whatever. Colin Holmes, Western Sydney >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Nonsense. They were deinstitutionalizing mental patients in New York in the >> 1950s and 1960s. The clincher was the reduced spending. If F had really had >> an influence on policy, wouldn't more people have been questioning why U.S. >> society produces so many people it classifies as mentally ill?
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