Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V.

Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte
Greifswalder Straße 4
10405 Berlin
Fax: 030-782 8947
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18th of May 2007

Press statement:

The torturers are worried

From 6.-8th June, 2007 in Dresden Germany a World Congress of
Psychiatry is to take place on the subject of coercive treatment.

We are of the opinion that psychiatric coercive treatment is a
despicable form of torture.

We request the organizers to call the congress off. Participants who
have already booked their journey and overnight accomodation could
instead enjoy the touristic attractions of Dresden.
The congress is evil, since it has as its premise torture-like coercion
and force as the basis of psychiatry. It is precisely this premise which
we dispute. For these acts of violence there cannot be an apology, even
when it is alleged to be "medical" treatment, because in this case
"informed consent" as an inviolable human right applies.
The direct proximity of psychiatric coercive treatment and torture is
thus evident [1].

An ostensible "diagnosis" in psychiatric jargon is the basis of this
psychiatric violence masked as medicine in the form of incarceration and
coercive treatment. We are of the opinion that this is slander, in
particular with such words such as "schizophrenia", the invention of an
unscrupulous Eugen Bleuler, who is known for the fact that he serially
committed a typical Nazi crime: coerced sterilizations. These coerced
sterilizations were the prelude for the singularity of the German
physician crimes: systematic mass murder in the gas chamber, which was
the blueprint for the murder of the European Jews, Sinti, Roma and others.

Nobody demonstrated the complete void of contents of psychiatric jargon
better than Gert Postel. Although he was only trained as the postman,
Gert Postel was promoted to the position of head physician of a Saxonian
psychiatric institution. As a result of his undercover investigations he
knows the power apparatus of coercive psychiatry from the inside. So he
can report from the inside of a power which is based only on the
mystification of a non-existent knowledge and the gullibilty of its
subjects. Therefore we are very pleased that we could win him for an
event on 6th June at 19h in the Dresden City Hall, in which he ironizes
the structures of their power preservation.
This event takes place in co-operation with WIR e.V. Dresden.

In order to offer to the interested public in Dresden as much
information as possible, in addition in the filmtheater Metropolis we
show a film series critical of psychiatry (entrance free):

5. June: 20 p.m.: The Foucault tribunal 22 p.m.: Interview with Gert
Postel + Michel Foucault, philosopher
7. June: 20 p.m.: For your own good 22 p.m.: Frances
8. June: 20 p.m.: Sichten und Vernichten + Unheimliches Wiedersehen 22
p.m.: Healing by Killing

Direct protest in front of the congress building is in planning. We hope
that the participants of the congress understand in time that this
congress is unwanted. For the organizers it should become a financial
fiasco if our demand for cancellation of the congress should be ignored.

Resolution of the General Assembly of 15/5/2007 of the
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Psychiatrie-Erfahrener (A Federal Association
of Psychiatric Survivors in Germany)

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[1] : Coercive psychiatry, a torture system:
http://www.iaapa.de/zwang2/halmi_english.htm


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