The Sunday Telegraph "sacks" Theodore Dalrymple for being too old. Here
Some recent Dalrymple for your enjoyment
The Victorian lunatic asylums of my city were magnificent, from the purely architectural point of view.
Oh, to be in England
... And it so happened that one of the most powerful critics of both the asylum system and psychiatry as a whole—powerful in the sense of having had the greatest overall effect—published his attack in 1961, not long after the introduction of medications so efficacious in the treatment of psychosis that the asylum populations had already begun to decline, as patients were discharged back into the outside world. The name of the critic was Michel Foucault, and within a few years his Madness and Civilization had spawned an entire movement, though of somewhat disparate elements.
Some recent Dalrymple for your enjoyment
The Victorian lunatic asylums of my city were magnificent, from the purely architectural point of view.
Oh, to be in England
... And it so happened that one of the most powerful critics of both the asylum system and psychiatry as a whole—powerful in the sense of having had the greatest overall effect—published his attack in 1961, not long after the introduction of medications so efficacious in the treatment of psychosis that the asylum populations had already begun to decline, as patients were discharged back into the outside world. The name of the critic was Michel Foucault, and within a few years his Madness and Civilization had spawned an entire movement, though of somewhat disparate elements.
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