In the early 1960s, the famous philosopher and historian Michel Foucault posed the question: who are the mad, and how has the attitude towards them changed throughout history? The result of these reflections was a fundamental work on history that reinforced the author's hypothesis that the science of the insane has always been at the service of the state. If this is so, can it be called a science? Throughout the history of humanity, the mad were not those who were sick, but those who were inconvenient for the state. The more reflections there are, the greater the likelihood that the fact of having thoughts will be used as an argument during a psychiatric consultation. The proposed publication is a fundamental sociological and anthropological work dedicated to the study of the concepts of norm and pathology. The book became an impulse for the creation of the so-called 'anti-psychiatry,' a movement against the system of punitive measures in combating any form of dissent.
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