SOZIALISTISCHES PATIENTENKOLLEKTIV
(SOCIALIST PATIENTS' COLLECTIVE)
The Socialist Patients' Collective achieves, by its de facto institutionalization
as an independent working group in the university rooms the recognition
of the entire university under the direction of the rector, the incompetence
of the Medical Faculty for the care of the sick. The medical profession
as a whole was forced to demonstrate their failure status before the eyes
of the world. At the beginning of January 1970 director Rolf RENDTORFF
had still entrenched himself behind excuses regarding the patients (see
above: field investigations, opinion polls): pretext in the view of the
imminent catastrophe he was neither to be responsible nor competent.
Before the beginning of the trial each of the SPK(H) patients and without
exception sent home each one of their advocates. Reasons: none of the advocates
was prepared or in the least capable at least to understand the SPK/PF(H)
theory of the new-revolution through strength from illness (Kraft aus
der Krankheit) , let alone enforce it publicly.
Also this we have changed in the meantime: many advocates give their
signature, stand up and vouch publicly for the products of the specified
application of the new revolutionary theory by virtue of illness.
And what has become of the persecutors of the SPK(H)? Not one of them
without a shattered career and many of them, in the meantime, are dead.
Curious? No, inevitable and generalizable (verallgemeinerbar).
SPK / PATIENTENFRONT
under conditions of imprisonment
The continuitity of SPK/PF-HUBER in the following years 1971-1976 continued
in prison. Subsequently it was distributed at all levels and in all continents.
| 1973 | PATIENTENFRONT as continuity of SPK(H) and return to the roots of the SPK(H), proclaimed by HUBER (SPK/PF) WD, Dr.med. in solitary confinement (Stammheim). |
| 6.11.75 | Beginning of the unconditional and unlimited hunger strike by Dr. Wolfgang HUBER and Dr. Ursel HUBER, both of them still in prison. A hungerstrike not for release, but for the purpose of confrontation against the doctors and their responsibility for prison and torture. |
| 12.11.75 | Beginning of the forced feeding torture against Dr. HUBER: 82 times in 71 days. Soon also against Dr. med. Ursel HUBER. |
| 25.-28.11.75 | 2000 participants in the Psychoanalytical Congress "Sexuality and Politics" in Milan decide on a call for the immediate release of the hungerstrikers. |
| 13.12.75
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Press statement signed among others by Jean-Paul SARTRE, Simone DE BEAUVOIR, Maitre DE FELICE, Mouvement d'action judiciaire, Robert CASTEL, Felix GUATTARI, David COOPER, Franco BASAGLIA, Mony ELKAIM, Roger GENTIS, Jean-Claude POLACK, Michel FOUCAULT and 74 signatures from members of the RESEAU INTERNATIONAL. |
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Release of Drs. Wolfgang and Ursel HUBER. Remaining is the withdrawal for life of their licenses to practice (Approbationsentzug auf Lebenszeit, first BERUFSVERBOT in medicine). This is not least because Drs. Wolfgang and Ursel HUBER through the SPK(H) and the PATIENTENFRONT have withdrawn all medicos the right of existence, and this in theoretical as well as in practical sense. They refuse, now as then, to have a license in common with doctors like the Auschwitz-MENGELEs and the T4-patients-euthanasia- HEYDEs. |
The continuity of SPK/PF(H) was first carried on in prison in the years of 1971-1976 and it was focussed on a few front patients. THE SPK/PF(H)-hunger strike in 1975 stimulated others to join. From this time on more and more people are in favor of illness and make use of it in their own ways and interests, according to the principle of MFE (multi-focal expansionism). MFE focus arose and came into being, also in other countries, on other continents. They all prefer serving illness free from authority instead of continuing under the delusion that as ladies and gentlemen they may go on day and night with the business of their personal immortality using authority and power, property and profit and much "culture", naturally always to the disadvantage of people like themselves.
The critical phase of SPK/PF(H) can be compared with an hour glass. After the strategic retreat of 500 patients a few of them continued in prison, until the hunger strike in 1975 which became one more experience of initiation, also for others, to join as newcomers or again, and for many others in the following years to do it independently. Hour-glass: bottleneck free from fear, no "memento mori" ("remember death"!), compare also the strength of illness during the SPK/PF(H)-hunger strike in 1975: illness is stronger than death.
Again: SPK was propaganda (propaganda and militancy, "naive and militant" - students' jargon). Propaganda is impulsation and propagation, thus also transmitting and, not only so-called, channeling. Quite in common are these the characteristics and distinctive marks of a species which truly earns the denomination human organisms, better: human bodies, spoken in the sense not of racism, but of diapathic science, closer to original Marxism than to any kind of technological science (includes of course "human sciences" and all the others), for all science is nothing but normoisic and iatrarchic pseudo-science.
Militancy as pathopractice is the direct confrontation, sought after
by front patients against the physicians. The prototypical situation in
its pure unadultarated state is pre-conceived nowhere in a more exemplary
way than in the prison hospital, where also the invisible and all traces
erasing torture of solitary confinement and visible and perceptible torture
tools (instruments of treatment) are set directly one into another under
medical responsibility. Also this in so far certainly and though not without
propagandistic moment (dialectics, no: diapathics!). In the history of
the PATIENTENFRONT there were, by the way, two further confrontations
in a prototypical situation: the hunger strike by another front patient
(G.S.) in the prison hospital of Wittlich in 1977. This confrontation
came to an end in such a way that the responsible physician had himself
declared as being mad and the front patient was set free. The other one
was the hunger strike in 1978 (T.T.): the responsible physician at Hohenasperg
was unmasked one year later by the front patient and his advocate during
a public trial as being a former, temporary participant of SPK and thus
a "gangster". Thereupon he quit his service. This may sound strange, but
it is done just like this. Anything else may be right or wrong, better
or worse, but this anything else at least was not and does not remain SPK/PF(H)
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Since 1976 the PATIENTENFRONT has continued to apply illness as a weapon of collective liberation in a widest variety of fields: everyday life, philosophy, agriculture, religion, law, music, history, so-called occultism. To articulate illness (Krankheitsbegriff), to reach the basic essentials of everything by nothing but illness (Diapathik), to apply illness to everyone and everything (Pathopraktik), everywhere and at every time, each there where he or she is and that, since the beginning. Thus for more than 25 years until now.
External commentaries:
There are published the following statements about SPK/PF(H) by the
cultural and political newspaper INVARIANTI (Rome) on the occasion
of a publication in Italy in 1992 of the texts written by SPK(H) and the
PATIENTENFRONT [SPK/PF(H)]:
No one else has advanced the revolutionary process
in fact - uncompromising front against all doctors -
and in writing - writing about illness in terms of illness (Kraenkschriften).
Previously, in fact since January 1976, the PATIENTENFRONT had taken charge of a lawyer's office and continued it. Since one year before this office had been facing its voluntary unvoluntary closing because of political lack of prospects and financial ruin, and it was at the same time expected too much of, particularly from a huge number of patients in hospitals. It was SPK, SPK/PF(H), that saved this lawyer's office, changed its function fundamentally and maintained by that the political and legal protection highly necessary for the patients to attack the doctors' class. Owing to the compulsary move because of redevelopment measures executed in this part of town the term lawyer's office was dropped.
So the SPK/PF(H) 1985 deliberately dropped the until then existing denomination lawyers' office, risking the attempt to call it frankly what it had been and what it had exercised all time, even as an unprecedented innovation, namely KRANKHEIT IM RECHT, which has turned out meanwhile to be a matter of course, even in the eyes of the juridical and official establishment, disregarding all resistances and troubles (instigated by the ruling doctors' class against ourselves), which we had to overcome.
KRANKEIT IM RECHT is daily opened from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Also
at other times and 24 hours a day personal contact (a telephone answering
machine only mediates during some hours at night). No self-help group,
no patients' protection group, no run-away-house refuge (kein Weglaufhaus),
no euthanasia help (keine Sterbehilfe), no master human right circle
(kein Herrenmenschenrechtsverein), but: the only pro-illness
organization.
What does this mean in a work-technical view?
(overview from 1993)
To the extern:
Technical:
There exist all tools which could be necessary for use in our work,
as rooms, vehicles, computers with about hundred current programs (programmed
by ourselves). Printing machines: 320 tapes for the computer printing machine
have been consumed, 900.000 photocopies until now could have been done,
etc.
Summary:
A whole load of action, some more details of which there have been
taken down in our one-week-average action report from February 1993 as
an example (see below).
NB: What nowadays is KRANKHEIT IM RECHT was then already SPK(H), case by case (Rechtszug um Rechtszug). Has the SPK(H) not at that time already "tactically" pathopracticed each case, often enough from the outset and in addition? Compare! On whose side was and is thus, at all times, K.O.-tism? Not on the side of SPK/PF(H) in any case.
The writings of illness by the SPK(H) and the PATIENTENFRONT (and also translations into the mostly used foreign languages) are published with KRRIM - PF-Verlag fuer Krankheit (KRRIM - PF-publisher pro illness, P.O.Box 12 10 41, D-68061 Mannheim) - from the original documents of the earliest days up to the philosophical-systematic expositions of HUBER (SPK/PF) WD, Dr.med. which were worked out in prison, in addition to various lectures at international congresses since 1976. In the meantime there exist altogether more than fifty publications and over 900 electronic publications in the most important world languages, publications and not only the few pamphlets the latters which Prof. von BAEYER once had tried to suffocate (see above, Aug. '69) by offering HUBER chances to become one time a type like him (President of World Association of Psychiatry and military psychiatrist and what else). Not to mention the administrative director of the clinical university institution who, some days before the start of SPK(H), had offered HUBER, officially but secretly, seven months' salaries in order to achieve that HUBER should stop his attacks and leave Heidelberg as soon as possible.
A quite arbitrarily chosen week from - at that time - 7 years KRANKHEIT
IM RECHT (contacts by phone, by mail and personally at KRANKHEIT IM RECHT):
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38-year-old man, inventor and specialized in electronics, heard "voices" coming out of his computer and therefore was persecuted by psychiatrists; he also was persecuted for his unusual political activities. We discuss the difference beween PATIENTS' FRONT (PF) and so-called self-help groups. The man emphasizes the PF is productive, saying what is to be done, in contrast to so-called leftists who only pretend to be against this, against that, criticizing, blah, blah, blah, and being passive. He wants to open a meeting point for people to start making his own KRANKHEIT IM RECHT. |
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36-year-old man, an industrial manager, who had been receiving therapy
for years (poisoned by medical drugs and interned, attempted "sui"cide
caused by doctors);
a) he wants to start a practical training at KRANKHEIT IM RECHT and brings friends to learn from KRANKHEIT IM RECHT so they may continue this work on their own. b) we also arrange for a man he met at the State Mental Hospital to accompany him to court as his counselor-in-sickness (Beistand im Krankheitswesen). He was charged a veterinarian's bill because his dog bit another dog. |
| 3. | A woman questions us because of candlelight processions against Nazis. At KRANKHEIT IM RECHT each and every day we have no superficial attacks on Nazism but each and every day attack its ideological basis and fundamental principles as provided by men of medicine. The difference between Nazis and fascists is made clear. |
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45-year-old man, skull-brain-injury as a result of a work accident: since 15 (!) years the medical expert who has to decide on his pension, is playing tricks on him and refuses to write the report. Actual problem: the man is being harassed by the Federal Railway: first they gave him the wrong ticket, then charged him for 'riding without paying' the difference for the right one. KRANKHEIT IM RECHT helps him express his protest and together we start some counterattacks: a seventeen-page complaint and criminal charge against the rail officers for being "deliberately misleading the authorities", "squandering tax money" and "persecution of innocent people". This patient is not willing to give in and meanwhile the rail authorities would prefer to never have started the affair. |
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37-year-old man, just divorced, independent trade. For years he has been menaced by lawyers and courts to return tools he never received. By agitation and thus initiation of the active side of sickness, he is able to overcome his fear of courts and can therefore appear at court on his own. A counselor-in-sickness (Beistand im Krankheitswesen) from KRANKHEIT IM RECHT is with him at the court in the public room in case he needs support: he wins the case. |
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29-year-old woman, locked up in a State Mental Hospital because she argued with her parents. Her fiancé makes use of legal documents developed and proven by KRANKHEIT IM RECHT [giving a legal status to people, when supporting others in the confrontation with doctors: counselor-in-sickness, authorized representative (Beistandsvollmacht, see PATIENTENSTIMME No 3)]; he forces the doctors by way of a juridical achieved temporary injunction to lift the ban on his visiting her. She was in actual danger of "suicide" because of the isolation imposed on her by the women doctors. Political background: some women doctors at the State Mental Hospital made use of psychiatry in the service of "feminist politics". The fiancé wants to establish KRANKHEIT IM RECHT in the village he lives and starts to move closer to the theory and practice of the PATIENTENFRONT. |
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75-year-old man, former police officer and janitor at a children's home. The question to be discussed: shall he send the bailiff to get money owed to him, only to take revenge and punish his debtor? Background of the discussion: scarcity is produced by the doctors and therefore it is all against all, the oppressed against the oppressed as well. The point however is to attack the "real" enemy. |
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39-year-old man, computer specialist. After reading a (somehow left) students' text written about the Socialist Patients' Collective, he finds himself exhausted. He understands his physical reaction as a protest against the student's stupidity bred at the university. Because of that the students are not able to crack even one single significant of the rulership (Herrschaftssignifikant), are not ableto destroy even one single chain built out of the ruling language in everyone's mind. On the contrary, this is collaboration with ideological imperialism directed against everyone's mind (Hirnimperialismus) which has effects on the body as well (exhaustion, headaches, stomach aches, weariness). |
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32-year-old woman, graduate student studying for a doctorate. She comes to us because of problems with her eyes, because a dentist refuses to treat her and sends her to a psychiatrist, and because she quarrels with her professor and is always defeated by him in controversial discussions. She wants to turn her reactionary response to problems into an attack and to stir up (agitate, set in motion) the active side of her sickness. |
| 10. | 30-year-old student, single parent of two children. He is writing about SPK for his university exam. He is under pressure for lack of time and money and has problems with the great deal of information about the SPK/PF(H), and many things he simply has not known yet. We discuss how to help him and how to make his work easier. |
| 11. | Postman: questions about candlelight processions and Nazism in everyday life. |
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50-year-old teacher, suffering from malaria effects after working abroad. She wants to join KRANKHEIT IM RECHT immediately. Confronted with the solutions and the underlying problems she is shocked at the power of sickness, at is reactionary, as well as at its revolutionary side. Consequence: she familiarizes herself first with the basic principles of SPK/PF(H), the concept of illness. |
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40-year-old woman. Every two weeks she is forced to take an injection of nerve poison medicine: if she refuses, she is threatened with being sent back to the State Mental Hospital. In reading the new SPK/PF/Huber book "Ueber das Anfangen" (On Beginning / How to Begin) she is glad to learn she is still able to read and comprehend in spite of the psychopharmaca bombardment against her. By reading this book she got moving and started organizing within a church's self-help group, which now has started attacking doctors. |
| 14. | 57-year-old patient from abroad, who has been in contact with us for many years. Her conduct in an actual confrontation makes us describe what she does as an provocative intrigue and collaboration with the Fuehrer of a self-help group, an exploiter of patients. She breaks contact with us. |
| 15. | We support someone who is under the tax inspector's investigation. |
| 16. | We cause a man in the midst of a divorce to take care he can be reached by mail to further on his divorce. His problems with alcohol are meanwhile resolved. |
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We advise a lawyer that the right to see court's files of course exists for patients, too. Our aim: to fend off the invective of an ignorant judge, who was totally terrified because a woman patient came to see her. In the judge's opinion, the lawyer should have stopped this terrifying event and prevent the patient from seeing the judge. Yes, it still happens that people who demand their rights are rejected, just by experts of law who ought to know this is a punishable offense (criminal justice). |
| 18. | We agree with a "left" book shop that they make a stand with SPK/PF(H) books during a meeting of left social crawlers (social workers). The bookstore employs tricks and sabotage to protect the social crawlers&Lefties from being attacked. Still open bill. |
| 19. | A patient with whom we had agreed to split (no further cooperation was possible because she confused friend and enemy) sends other patients to KRANKHEIT IM RECHT. Previously we had collectively organized her release from the State Mental Hospial; her housing and work, and a problem with alcohol in her circle of friends had been tackled. |
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To someone from the "patients' protection association" we explain the difference between SPK, PATIENTENFRONT and SPK/PF(H) on the one hand and run-away-houses refuges, the patients' protection clubs, self-help groups etc. on the other hand. We are the only pro-sickness-organization. Difference between HUBER (SPK/PF) and a physician, what HUBER himself by his own decision not continues to be. No further questions. |
| 21. | Questions answered concerning water rights in Southern Europe. |
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Debate with an expert historian about the new SPK/PF/Huber book Ueber das Anfangen (On Beginning / How to Begin). His conclusion: after reading this book I now know I was mislead by false interpretations by leftists, considering the student movement of the sixties and the SPK to be identical or parallel; now I see that SPK/PF(H) and the student movement is out of all proportion. |
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49-year-old woman with marital problems. Persecuted by the neighbors of her little village giving her to understand that she soon will be imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital. Attempted suicide with a hair dryer in her bathtub. We inform her that from an astropathic view (i.e. so-called astrology under the revolutionary concept of sickness) the village where she lives is under a sign and has the tendency that everyone living there tends to exaggerate everyday's events and to charge emotionally these little events very much. This pathopractic advice (i.e. practical doing based on the revolutionary concept of sickness) enables her to cope better with her neighbors' hostility. A temporary move helps her overcome the crisis. |
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In contrast to the medical results of a clinic, we determine by means of astropathy that it is not the aggravation of what the doctors diagnosed as "cancer" from which an 85-year-old patient suffers, causing him trouble in breathing (no, it was not head of state Honecker from Ex-DDR!). Background: Doctors had pressed the patient to be shot with a series of X-rays, as usual. |
| 25. | We receive a call from a patient in a hospital far away who wants support against the medical terror of imprisonment and injections. |
Sporadically we also assist children and grandchildren to get along with the effects of medical treatment, troubles at school and in apprenticeship, and with authorities, foreign language correspondence with pen pals etc.
Note: This is not an advertisement. Those who do not like it, should stay away. Anyway we regularily pay the price. Also in form of money.
Case work? Street work? Borderline cases? No, by no means:
From its beginnings until now and in future SPK/PF(H) has striven and
strives to promote practical changes in all persons, things and
relations, which it happens to contact. In this opinion neither book-writing,
nor artistic or any other performances are of any use before the named
changes with which they deal have been made producing results in
practice and experience. Also they suggest, that revolutionary work, as
described on the preceding pages produces not only better sickness, better
hormons and better endorphines but better states of ecstasy and immunity,
than best foods & drugs can do. Some years ago they concluded, that
their revolutionary goal is reached: their reality becoming permanently
cleaned from doctoral and nazist influences, replaced by what they call
the conditio of utopathy.
If your wishes also tend to practical change look at your environment
and do it yourself.
Up to now I have not read one single word of the judicial or medical
sentences against me. What I got thereabout, mainly from left wing but
also from other publications doesn't deal at any rate about illness as
it was my doing and my thinking from all of the beginning of the here mentioned
contexts. Thus:
no concern to illness, bullshit.
I experienced from those publishers for example that we were sentenced
because of "gezieltes revolutionäres Handeln" (nota benissime!).
As you can see in this formula there lacks completely the word illness,
both as basic matter and as the aim. They substituted it by the "verfassungsmaeßige
Ordnung der Bundesrepublik", the latter which also lacks the word illness.
Thus:
no concern to illness, bullshit.
I also remember from those publications, that I now was, told in my
own words, a chief gangster, a manager of explosives and a falsificator
of passports. Right or wrong and besides of all modesty to be expected
I until now confess that I every time did all I could to forward and to
protect illness and all what there was involved collectively and by matter.
But the named terms, from which I myself like to make use if there is occasion
to do, also lack any hint to illness. Thus:
no concern to illness, bullshit.
Of course there arose from illness our crime guerilla- and even our magic sex workshops (Arbeitskreise über Stadtguerilla, Sexualitaet, etc.), revolutionary ones, because not at all therapeutic, not at all medically recommendable, not to mention the hygienic view. But it seems that those publishers while writing about us mostly were practicing spirit- and dope workshops, arising from what is medically licensed and even recommended. And because there was a tremendous lack of dope and spirits in SPK(H), because those things didn't fit at all to our Krankheitsbegriff, sex & crime - as linked to illness until nowadays - yet remain to be without concern to illness, remain to be bullshit.
It is true that even the US army and the NATO-German army of course had sent representatives to the crises staffs when the persecutional investigations had started. Attracted by illness as it was in the phototechnical workshop or by other fetishes, more familiar to them than illness? In deeds scarcely (wohl kaum!). For they withdrew as soon as possible, as I remember from the notes of some of the afore-mentioned publishers. Thus: no concern to illness, bullshit, regarding illness and regarding all our doings and thinkings about it up to nowadays.
To whom who published or publishes on SPK, in the last five paragraphs is provided a test to find out how deeply he himself or she herself is still involved in the bullshit or if he or she is already fairly up to date, thanks to SPK(H), two decades thereafter.
Collective Translation: Kurd Ch. Schager, Dipl.-Angl.,
M.A.soc.ling. , PF/SPK MFE Final editing: Huber
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