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The history of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychology is now popular and better defined. Psychoanalytic history was so intricately involved with the theory of technique, the theory of psychopathology, the theory of treatment, and the theory of mental and emotional function that its history was studied as part of understanding the entire field. Since Freud was so pivotal, and is so today, his life and correspondence has been scrutinized carefully. As some of the subsequent generations of psychoanalytic contributors have come into focus, their lives, writings, and letters have been also carefully studied.
Michel Foucault and David Rothman have studied institutions for the mentally ill. While Foucault shifted some of his ideas and emphases as he developed his theories, he still remains a significant contributor to psychology, philosophy, history, and aesthetics. Rothman, an American historian, is best known for his classic The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971). He noted that in the Jacksonian era, Americans