Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part – Medical power in a narcissistic culture
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(...) My thesis is that most psychiatric disorders are artificial disorders. I discuss
three reasons for this. (...) The DSM criteria are gradually changed in character:
from descriptive syndromes to categories of natural kinds disorders.
Through the reference to the new DSM-V development and research of Kupfer
and others he writes:
"Where the neo-Kraepelinianen still believed in clear boundaries between normality
and psychopathology are now many experts are convinced of the multifaceted
nature of the psychiatric problems. This is also true for ADHD. Of carving
nature at the joints is not the case, the borders are only where we have placed
them. (...) "Nature has not chosen psychiatric disorders making neat packages
with clear boundaries," wrote the authors of DSM-IV.
The philosophical core of psychiatry deals with the question of the presence and
the power of the values to objectivity in somatic medicine. A wonderful quotation
from the British psychiatrist-philosopher follows:
"Values play in psychiatry a greater role than in the somatic, because psychiatry
diversity of values is greater: psychiatry is not only evidence-based but also value-based.
The somatic relates to psychiatry as a good strawberry into a good film,
good (...) Good strawberry and film are both value terms, but there is an important
difference. Because we all think the same about what is a good strawberry,
we can describe this concept in real terms as redness and sweetness; we can
ignore the value aspect. Because we have different views on what is a good film,
so we can not describe this in purely factual terms (like: lots of action, lots of
humour). The term “good film” remains value-laden."
[The good comparison is the heart attack (somatic) and the panic attack (psychiatric).]