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To understand the meaning behind a social order, we must first learn the history of this photo. The history of mental illness are as varied as the stereotypes we use to define crazy day. What we now define as abnormal of modern psychology and dealing with drugs and / or treatment have been treated differently over time. Today’s media shows that the violent mentally ill, but in the Middle Ages, madness is seen as a part of society, with the madness itself is a source of humor, as opposed to a source of fear. The contract, in Paris during the seventeenth century has been one of being shut out of a hundred fools.
Although today the foolish child can be considered at other times, where the mentally ill to work. In his book, Madness and Civilization, A History of Madness in the Age of Reason, Foucault describes how mental illness has been seen in history. Foucault texts and literature of the time a picture of how our views have changed in this group. A vision of how society has changed and how we see the madness. As a result, provides an overview of how society defines normal and what seemed normal.