This was my first read on the subject....after I wrote a report on Foucault my history professor wanted to hire me as an assistant. Sadly I had to move and couldn’t accept. The next year I dropped out of college for good.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique) is a 1964 abridged edition of a 1961 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. An English translation of the complete 1961 edition, titled History of Madness, was published in June 2006. [wiki]