Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part – Medical power in a narcissistic culture
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turbed, or is wrong anything else with the patient. Glass concludes with a plea for
an open and dynamic concept disease.
Through the description of the differences between diagnosis and classification
Glass steps into the discussion about the biological taxonomy (relations between
different classes), and the basis for discussion of the taxonomy and the medical
questions to which a medical taxonomy should be based. To clarify that he sets
numerical (statistical) taxonomy next to cladistics and evolutionary organizing
principles.
The taxonomy defines one example (...) a number of properties going after the
combinations of properties which are mostly common in a given population. The
cladistics organizes evolutionary information. Each step in the evolution implies,
according to the cladistics a new functional adaptation and thus a new organizational
principle or plan. This building project is embedded in the genetic information.
(...) Classification of the species takes place, containing the evolutionary
information. (...) Popular today is a somewhat weakened form of cladistics known
as "evolutionary system”. It combines planning based on similarities (numeric)
with planning based on organizational principles or genetic information (cladistics).
The problems he runs for the question to the disease as categorical or dimensional
phenomenon. Categorical: you have an illness and you do not like him. Dimensional,
there is a continuum as a manifestation of variant possibilities with the
degree of disruption of the process. Psychiatry tends to present a categorical conception
of disease, despite the growing louder out of the negative attitude. The
categorical approach is consistent with how clinicians prefer to think. When one
realizes, the current dissatisfaction with the classification of personality disorders
is explicable. Personality is pre-eminently a dimensional construct. Despite the
fact that it seems to go beyond that, the DSM-IV.