About the book: 2023 / In the early 1960s, Michel Foucault wondered: who are the insane and how attitudes towards them have changed throughout history . The result of these reflections was a fundamental work on the history of psychiatry and the author’s slight suspicions that the science of the insane has always been in the service of the state. And if so, can it be called science? Throughout human history, it was not those who were sick who were called insane, but those who were inconvenient to the state. The more thoughts there are, the more likely it is that the fact of having thoughts will be used as an argument at a psychiatrist’s appointment. The proposed publication is a fundamental work of a sociologist devoted to the study of the concept of norm and pathology. The book became the impetus for the creation of the so-called “anti-psychiatry”, a movement against the system of punitive measures to combat any kind of dissent..