Michael Foucault



Michel Foucault is a psychologist, historian of ideas, social theorist and French philosopher. Foucault began his higher studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure, which was a prestigious school of humanities, then because of problems in his life he had to start psychiatry therapy and it is at this moment that he marveled at the psychology and decided to study it.
Foucault have made a great criticism of confinement institutions, such insane asylums, prisons and hospitals, analyzing the way in which they operate. He also studied and criticized the existing vision of normality and abnormality, which is installed by the organizations of power to control and organize the population, cataloging certain people as "abnormal" when they don´t contribute to society. 
When I studied it for the first time, it was a lot since I had never read this kind of reflections, and it helped me to create a more critical vision of the system. I really like Foucault's approaches, he is a very critical psychologist and philosopher, who poses a new view of power and how it is present in society. It also exposes to a new way of looking at social relations, generating a contribution for critical social psychology.

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