USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
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Applicants for Intervention
VICTOR M. SOBEY April 30, 1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-v-
THE WILHEIM REICH FOUNDATION, a Maine corpor-
ation, WILHEIM REICH and ILSE-OLLENDORFF,
Defendants. Civil Action File No. 1056
ELSWORTH F. BAKER, K.M. BREMER, PHILIP GOLD,
SIDNEY HANDELMAN, MORTON HERSKOWITZ, CHARLES
I. OILER, CHESTER M. RAPHAEL, MICHAEL SILVERT,
VICTOR A. SOBEY, WILLIAM F. THORBURN, OSCAR
TROPP, SIMEON J. TROPP, EILEEN WALKENSTEIN,
JAMES A. WILLIE. and ALBERT I. DUVALL,
Applicants for Intervention.
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STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) SS:-
VICTOR M. SOBEY, being duly sworn, says:
I am a physician duly licensed to
practice as such and one of the applicants in this proceeding for leave
to intervene.
I was born at Solvay, New York, on
August 25, 1916, and graduated from Solway High School in June, 1933. I
was graduated from Syracuse University in June, 1937, and I received my
degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Chicago Medical School, Chicago,
Illinois, in June, 1942.
I externed at Long Beach Hospital,
Long Beach, Long Island, in the Summer of 1941, and at the Cook County
Jail Hospital from September, 1941, to June, 1942.
I interned at St. Joseph's, Far Rockaway,
New York, from June, 1942, to June, 1943, when I received my license to
practice medicine in the State of Illinois. From November, 1943, to July,
1946, I served in the Army of the United States and received an honorable
discharge with the rank of captain in 1946. During the war, I did neurology
and psychiatry exclusively at the Fort Bliss Station Hospital where I was
NP Ward Officer; Walter Reed General Hospital where I was NP Ward Officer;
Darnell General Hospital, where I was NP Ward Officer and Fort Benjamin
Harrison Disciplinary Barracks where I was NP Ward Officer.
I had a residency in psychiatry at
Lyons Veterans Hospital, Lyons, New Jersey (New York College of Medicine)
from September 1946 to September, 1948, and in October, 1946, I received
my license to practice medicine in New York.
I was staff psychiatrist at the Newark
VA Mental Hygiene Clinic from September, 1948, to February, 1949, and staff
psychiatrist at the Plainfield Child Guidance Clinic, Plainfield, New Jersey,
from April, 1948, to June, 1949.
I studied orgonomy and the principles
of the science and those of the orgone energy accumulator from December,
1947 to September, 1950, and I have been in the private practice of psychiatry,
employing the principles of orgonomy and the principles of the orgone energy
accumulator from April, 1948, to the present.
As a physician and psychiatrist, it
is my obligation to my patients to employ for their benefit those principles
of science which I believe will be of most aid to them. Hence, I employ
the principles of orgonomy and the use of the orgone energy accumulator.
I affirm to this Court my belief in
the validity of orgonomy as a science and my belief in the validity of
the principles and the use of the orgone energy accumulator.
Under this injunction, I find that
I have been curtailed and handicapped in the practice of my profession
and the earning of my livelihood in that I cannot employ for the benefit
of my patients those principles which I believe to have therapeutic value
to them. In addition, my growth as a scientist is curtailed and hampered
by the order which prevents the dissemination of information concerning
orgonomy and the use of the accumulator. No science can develop when its
literature is destroyed and when the work of scientists cannot be published.
My right to practice medicine,
which has been curtailed, is a legal right which gives me a direct interest
in this proceeding and I respectfully request the Court to grant our application
for leave to intervene on the basis of the grounds more specifically set
forth in the affidavit of Dr. James A. Willie.
Signed ..... Victor M. Sorby M.D.
Sworn to before me this
30 day of April, 1954.
signed .. Berdie Pisetky
Berdie Pisetsky
NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York
No. 03-8382900
Qualified in Bronx County
Cert. filed with New York Co.
Commission Expires March 30, 1956
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