The article contributes to the genealogy of current tendencies in crisis governance by reconstructing Michel Foucault’s analysis of the application of the notion of crisis in 19th-century psychiatry. This analysis complements and corrects Reinhart Koselleck’s history that viewed crisis as originally a medical, judicial or theological concept that was transferred to the political domain in the 18th century. In contrast, Foucault highlights how the psychiatric application of the concept of crisis was itself political, conditioned by the disciplinary power of the psychiatrist. Unlike the ancient medical concept of crisis that emphasized the doctor’s judgement in observing the event of truth in the course of the disease, psychiatric crisis is explicitly forced by the doctor in order to elicit the desired symptoms in the patient and convert their power of disciplinary confinement into medical diagnosis. The article argues that this notion of crisis resonates with the tendencies observed in contemporary crisis governance in Western societies. While these tendencies are often addressed in terms of ‘psychopolitics’ that presumably succeeds Foucault’s ‘biopolitics’, we suggest that Foucault’s own work on psychiatric power offers a valuable genealogical perspective on the contemporary governance of crises.

本文通过重构米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）对19世纪精神病学中危机概念应用的分析，为当前危机治理趋势的系谱做出了贡献。该分析补充并纠正了莱因哈特·科塞莱克（Reinhart Koselleck）的历史，该历史将危机最初视为医学，司法或神学概念，并在18世纪转移到了政治领域。相比之下，福柯强调了危机概念在精神病学上的应用本身是如何在政治上受精神病医生的纪律约束的。与古老的医学危机概念不同，后者强调医生在疾病过程中观察真相事件的判断力，医生明确地强迫精神病危机，以便在患者中引起所需的症状并将其纪律处分的能力转化为医学诊断。文章认为，这种危机概念与西方社会当代危机治理中观察到的趋势共鸣。虽然这些趋势通常可以用福柯的“生物政治学”的“心理政治学”来解决，但我们建议福柯自己在精神病学方面的工作为当代危机管理提供了宝贵的家谱学观点。