Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part – Medical power in a narcissistic culture
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12.5 Jan Foudraine and “Who is made of wood?”
(Dutch translated title contently meaning ‘Who is an object?’)
We turn our critique still going back to the Sixties and the social protests. We
have taken for granted on a large scale the international celebrities from the scope
of anti-psychiatry with their criticism of Western society as the presupposed
cause of many mental disorders, because of the western culture of production,
achievement and consumption. I am in an open, but critical distance of this antipsychiatry,
with hope for a possible solution leading to an integrative medicine
with interdisciplinary psychiatric models and music therapy as well.
Because we draw historical lines, I researched shortly the criticism of psychiatry
as a medical speciality, which is continuously published, the name of the now
passed away dr. Jan Foudraine included. The Seventies did not unmentioned him.
He deserved international fame by his publications, though his private choice for
a band with the Bhagwan movement, scored scientifically bad effects. 208
Foudraine was not counted into the anti-psychiatry, but railed strongly against the
medicalization of mental health, especially according to psychosis and schizophrenia.
"He made his contrarian views on schizophrenia clearly revealed in his
book "Who's made of wood?" (1971) 209
208 He was also known as Swami Deva Amrito, the name he got from Osho, who was called at the time “Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh”.
209 In "Who is wood," a quest through psychiatry Foudraine argues that psychiatry, which he considers to teach in his
training to know the schizophrenic man wrongly as a patient, someone with a disease of the psyche to be treated in a
hospital or nursing home, cared for by nurses and exchangeable object of research for the treating physician. Treatments
are physical interventions in the body, such as medications, electroshock and even lobotomies.
He rejects the qualitative separation therewith is made between these "sick" and "healthy" people: according to him schizophrenics
are only quantitatively different, namely people with problems like everyone else, although the burden of suffering
itself shows empathy . He makes use of a quote from the American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, who says: "[...]
we are all much more simply human than other wise, but we are happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable
and mentally disordered or whatever . "