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1) Michel Foucault analyzes the history and assumptions of mental illness and psychology. 2) Foucault argues that mental pathology requires a different form of analysis than organic pathology and can only be understood through the social construction of ideas and practices. 3) According to Foucault, psychology has failed to extend the organic account of the personality in a way that maintains objectivity, instead relying too heavily on idealist concepts. Foucault aims to combine organic and psychologica

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