Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part – Medical power in a narcissistic culture
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the flower power of the sixties of the last century. Medical Psychiatry 206 and psychiatric
practice - as he drafted a harsh treatment history (Betlam as an example) -
fled from the Sixties in the tentacles of the pharmaceutical industry, which put an
end to the era of lacking differentiated psychotropic drugs. One developed treatment
intervenes with compositions of opium to bromides, barbiturates, hyoscines,
amphetamines, as a replacement of the chlorpromazine (Largactil) – that
was dominant. The pharmaceutical industry became a powerful social phenomenon
with a choice of including antipsychotics and antidepressants. This industry
has created itself a market and is conquering the global culture. The trend was
put. No longer "the sick" but "disease" was the object of medical psychiatry. The
psychiatrist was positioned ally of a full health care, because of his medical training
and his future specialization. His medical status became equivalent to the surgeon
and others!
12.4 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The American influence from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) via
the DSM development was enormously in the world. A McDonald's-like con-
206 The term "medical psychiatry is used by me here as a clarification of the medical character of psychiatry. It is actually
a pleonasm, because psychiatry etymologically is always medical. The word comes from the Greek psyche (soul) and
"Iatros (doctor). A psychiatrist is a "doctor for the human soul." Here we have two sub-problems: 1. the importance of the
human soul is culture bound and, for example, in the secularized West they are undergoing a change due to an altered
scientific humanity. This also applies to the "humanities", the science of the human mind. Are his "soul" and "spirit"
synonyms? For the science human beings are an anthropological dichotomy: body and soul (Platonic). The spiritual meaning
of life sciences employ a concept of man as anthropological trinity of body, soul and spirit (Jewish, Christian, humanist
and oriental heritage). 2. If as a result of scientific advances touch the "doctor of the soul" out of the picture, because
the neurophysiology research into and treatment of disorders of the brain as a substrate for the human mind takes over and
the brain diseases to the discipline of the neurologist must be counted, it means that on closer analysis, the end of the
psychiatry will occur as a medical specialty. Psychiatry will have to focus on the treatment of "psychological reaction
fields caused by the - evidence from neurological examination - brain disorders, which are also handled by neurology.
Since the psychological problems - whether or not caused by brain disease or - damaging - express themselves in human
behaviour affecting the environment, creates a psychosocial health care, where the medical dimension can be simplified
considerably. But more about that topic will later follow. We will see that the term "medical psychiatry" as pleonasm
becomes necessary in the future, as this is soon under the 'enhancement' in psychiatry, it no longer relates only to 'cure'
disorders, but to "improve the human being." The 'cosmetic psychiatry "is a competitor of medical psychiatry. The ethical
issues against cosmetic psychiatry are still enormous. We must accept that, or should this be the part of a paradigm
change?