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1. FOUCAULT, MARX, AND THE POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES OF THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL.

Author

Hristov, Momchil

Subjects
POWER (Social sciences), DATA analytics, VIOLENCE, LECTURES & lecturing, CAPITALISM
Abstract

Despite the efforts to revise Foucault’s early lecture courses at the Collège de France towards an anti-Marxist interpretation, these lectures constitute an indelible sign of the French philosopher’s fruitful intervention in the field of Marxist analysis of exploitation. I focus on the lectures of 1972–1973 and 1973–1974. As I attempt to show, Foucault’s analytics of power relations, developed in these lectures, helps us understand the embeddedness of political technologies in the process of capital accumulation. My reading concentrates particularly on the role of violence (and different mechanisms and institutions of violence and coercion) not only as a “prelude to the history of capital” (Marx), but as its constant fellow-traveler. As Foucault shows, “apparatuses and techniques of confinement” are means to “accumulate men” for the ends of capitalist production and, in this sense, they are not only indispensable for the reproduction of capital but function also as “levers” of its accumulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023

2. Negotiating body and power in forensic mental health care.

Author

Repo, Virve and Kymäläinen, Päivi

Subjects
MENTAL health services, HYGIENE, SPATIAL arrangement
Abstract

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the reduction of coercive methods has been a tendency in psychiatric care in Finland. Combined with the transforming ideas of healing, the reduction has changed practices in the institutions of forensic mental health care, by encouraging efforts to increase self-determination and individual responsibility. This article addresses the coexistence of the previous and current bodily regimes, and the resulting complex and contested spatial and bodily arrangements. We combine the discussions on biopower and bodily regimes in our analysis of the practices and negotiations related to the alternative methods to coercion (special observation and restricting garments), mundane practices (eating and exercising), and negotiations related to touch and sexuality. As our study shows, bodily regimes and care practices are constantly under negotiation, during which there may be inconsistences in what is or is not allowed. Moreover, what seems to be a positive tendency towards increased self-determination has led to new forms of pressure, resulting from the increased possibility to protest by using one's own body (e.g. by ignoring hygiene), or from the diminishing self-determination of the nurses (e.g. during special observation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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4. Dwangen drangmaatregelen binnen een gesloten acute psychiatrische opnameafdeling; relatie met socio-demografische en klinische kenmerken

Subjects
Emergency medication, Closed ward, Seclusion, Severe mental illness, Coercive methods, Acute psychiatry
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Admission at a closed acute psychiatric ward is a severe and possibly life changing experience for a patient. Sometimes admission is accompanied by coercive measures. Despite the impact that these measures may have on the patient, very little research has been published concerning this patient population. AIM: To obtain insight into the connection between the socio-demographic characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward and the coercive measures to which they were subjected. METHOD: For a year a database was compiled to give us information about the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward in The Hague in the Netherlands. This record enables us to analyse the relation between these characteristics and coercive measures. RESULTS: The majority of patients admitted were male, single, childless and were unemployed or not in education but were receiving some form of welfare payment. 33% of admissions were in fact re-admissions. 20% of the admissions/re-admissions were secluded during the admission procedure - for the following reasons: symptoms of a psychotic disorder, a manic episode and/or aggression. Secluded patients were younger and had more serious psychiatric problems; they functioned less well and had been in hospital longer than patients who had not been secluded upon admission. During the admission procedure 14% of patients received emergency medication. CONCLUSION: These results have given us more insight into the connection between the use of coercive measures in psychiatry and the socio-demographic characteristics and clinical characteristics of the patients involved. This information could serve as reference material for future research.

Published
2016

5. A study of the connection between coercive measures used in a closed acute psychiatric ward and the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients involved

Author

Miedema, N., Hazewinkel, M. C., Van Hoeken, D., Van Amerongen, A. S., and De Winter, R. F.P.

Subjects
Emergency medication, Closed ward, Seclusion, Severe mental illness, Coercive methods, Acute psychiatry
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Admission at a closed acute psychiatric ward is a severe and possibly life changing experience for a patient. Sometimes admission is accompanied by coercive measures. Despite the impact that these measures may have on the patient, very little research has been published concerning this patient population. AIM: To obtain insight into the connection between the socio-demographic characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward and the coercive measures to which they were subjected. METHOD: For a year a database was compiled to give us information about the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward in The Hague in the Netherlands. This record enables us to analyse the relation between these characteristics and coercive measures. RESULTS: The majority of patients admitted were male, single, childless and were unemployed or not in education but were receiving some form of welfare payment. 33% of admissions were in fact re-admissions. 20% of the admissions/re-admissions were secluded during the admission procedure - for the following reasons: symptoms of a psychotic disorder, a manic episode and/or aggression. Secluded patients were younger and had more serious psychiatric problems; they functioned less well and had been in hospital longer than patients who had not been secluded upon admission. During the admission procedure 14% of patients received emergency medication. CONCLUSION: These results have given us more insight into the connection between the use of coercive measures in psychiatry and the socio-demographic characteristics and clinical characteristics of the patients involved. This information could serve as reference material for future research.

Published
2016

6. Dwangen drangmaatregelen binnen een gesloten acute psychiatrische opnameafdeling; relatie met socio-demografische en klinische kenmerken

Author

Miedema, N., Hazewinkel, M. C., Van Hoeken, D., Van Amerongen, A. S., De Winter, R. F.P., and Clinical Psychology

Subjects
Emergency medication, Closed ward, Seclusion, Severe mental illness, Coercive methods, Acute psychiatry
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Admission at a closed acute psychiatric ward is a severe and possibly life changing experience for a patient. Sometimes admission is accompanied by coercive measures. Despite the impact that these measures may have on the patient, very little research has been published concerning this patient population. AIM: To obtain insight into the connection between the socio-demographic characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward and the coercive measures to which they were subjected. METHOD: For a year a database was compiled to give us information about the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to a closed acute psychiatric ward in The Hague in the Netherlands. This record enables us to analyse the relation between these characteristics and coercive measures. RESULTS: The majority of patients admitted were male, single, childless and were unemployed or not in education but were receiving some form of welfare payment. 33% of admissions were in fact re-admissions. 20% of the admissions/re-admissions were secluded during the admission procedure - for the following reasons: symptoms of a psychotic disorder, a manic episode and/or aggression. Secluded patients were younger and had more serious psychiatric problems; they functioned less well and had been in hospital longer than patients who had not been secluded upon admission. During the admission procedure 14% of patients received emergency medication. CONCLUSION: These results have given us more insight into the connection between the use of coercive measures in psychiatry and the socio-demographic characteristics and clinical characteristics of the patients involved. This information could serve as reference material for future research.

Published
2016

7. Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War

Author

AIR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND MAXWELL AFB AL, Biderman, Albert D., AIR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND MAXWELL AFB AL, and Biderman, Albert D.

Abstract

This journal article discusses the coercive methods used by Chinese Communists to extract false confessions from U.S. Air Force men who were captured during the Korean War. Specifically, the methods were meant to induce compliance -- to undermine the resistance of the prisoner. The article includes a chart showing an outline of these methods, classified into eight general types, some illustrations of the specific forms these methods take, and the author's judgment of the effect of each. The methods are as follows: isolation, monopolization of perception, induced debilitation or exhaustion, threats, occasional indulgences, demonstrating "omnipotence" and "omniscience," degradation, and enforcing trivial demands. The kind of "confession" discussed consists of considerably more than the signing of a piece of paper which says "On such and such a date I committed such and such a crime-signed John Jones." It consists of considerably more than making an equivalent oral statement in a court. These "confession"-extortion efforts involve the attempt to manipulate the individual so that he behaves over an extended period as if: (1) he actually committed certain concrete acts which he can "describe" with meticulous detail; (2) these acts were "criminal," in the sense of being violations of the most fundamental standards of human decency; (3) these acts were not isolated transgressions but manifestations of a "criminal" pattern in his thought and action; (4) his "crimes" were part and parcel of a larger nefarious political conspiracy; (5) his "criminal" role was motivated by a self-seeking alignment with this political conspiracy, of which he was only a pawn; (6) he is now remorseful and repentant; and (7) his changed attitude is due to a new-found political conviction for which he is indebted to his patient captors., Published in the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, v33 n9, Sep 1957. Presented at a meeting of the Section on Neurology and Psychiatry with the New York Neurological Society at the New York Academy of Medicine on 13 Nov 1956.

Published
1957

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