Homo Psychologicus in Modern Society

シンリガクテキ ニンゲン ノ キンダイ

ナカガワ, テルヒコ

Nakagawa, Teruhiko

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

選択-帰責の論理

悪から病へ

病から悪へ

逸脱の発明

homo psychologicus

choice-responsibility rule

from badness to sickness

from sickness to badness

invention of deviance

In this paper, I discuss roles of psychology and psychiatry in modern society. First, I examine the studies by Michel Foucault (Foucault 1966,1972) about the fact that persons insane are excluded from almost all social-roles in modern society, and that psychology and psychiatry are connected to this exclusion. In this examination, I refer to the study of Takahashi Ryoko(Takahashi 1993) and Sato Toshiki(Sato 1993) and confirm the following theses: 1. Psychological and psychiatric investigations on "psy" depend on the assumption of "homo psychologicus" (Foucault 1966). 2. The "choice-responsibility rule" (Sato 1993) helps modern societies to exclude persons insane from social life. ("Choice-responsibility rule" is the rule that one has to take responsibility for one's own choice.) Secondly, based on these theses, I explain three roles of psychology and psychiatry in modern society. 1. They contribute to the changes of the designations of deviance from badness to sickness. 2. they also contribute to the change in the opposite direction, from sickness to badness. 3. They also contribute to invent new categoris of deviant behavior. In this explanation, I refer to the discussion about medicalization of deviance (Conrad & Schneider 1992), about the contribution of stress studies to "victim-blaming"(Kuroda 1993, Greco 1993), and about codependency (Noguchi 1993).

英語