USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
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Applicants for Intervention
OSCAR TROPP April 30, 1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-against-
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:-
OSCAR TROPP, 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 did my pre-medical studies at the
City College of the City of New York, Columbia University and New York
University. I received my medical degree from Dalhousie University, Faculty
of Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1926.
From about June of 1926 to June of
1927, I was on a general interneship at Metropolitan Hospital in New York
City. I received my license to practice medicine in New York State in June
of 1927.
I was resident at the Correction Hospital
(New York City Department of Correction) New York City, from June 1927
to August of 1928. Thereafter, and until January 1, 1929, I was assistant
resident at the New York City Cancer Institute. For the next six months
I was resident in obstetrics at the Berwind Maternity Center, New York
City. This was an independent clinic which dealt in Obstetrics and permitted
its patients to remain at home even during delivery. Thereafter, it became
associated with the Cornell University Medical Center. From July 1, 1929,
to January of 1932, I was Admitting Physician at the Morrisania City Hospital,
Bronx County, New York.
I went into general practice on January
1, 1932 with emphasis on gynecology and obstetrics. At that time, I was
a member of the Bronx County Medical Society.
I joined the United States Army in
July of 1942, with the rank of Captain and served through the war until
June 1946. During that period I did neuro-psychiatric work in both station
hospital and general hospital.
In the last two years of the war I
was Chief of the Closed Ward Section of the Psychiatric Division of the
General Hospital, the DeWitt General Hospital, at Auburn, California.
I commenced the general practice of
psychiatry in New York City in July of 1946.
In October of 1946, I began training
with Dr. Wilhelm Reich in orgonomy. This entailed personal therapy, character
analytical work, and the acquisition of knowledge and technique in orgone
therapy.
Since January 1, 1948, I have been
practicing medicine in New York City, in the general fields of medicine
and psychiatry and specializing in medical orgone therapy.
I am a member of the New York County
Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, the American Medical
Association and the American Psychiatric Association.
My work, studies and.experience as
a scientist and physician have convinced me that the principles of orgonomy
and the use of the orgone energy accumulator in medical and psychiatric
therapy are valid scientific principles. As a physician, I believe it to
be my duty to employ for the benefit of my patients those principles of
science which will be of the most help to them.
The injunction in this case operates
to deprive me my right to practice medicine and earn my livelihood in the
practice of medicine and psychiatry and operates to curtail and hamper
my development and growth as a scientist. These rights of mine have not
been adequately represented in the main proceeding and for these reasons
I respectfully join the application to leave to intervene on all of the
grounds more specifically set forth in the affidavit of Dr. James A. Willie.
signed ... Oscar Tropp M.D.
Sworn to before me this
30 day of April, 1954.
signed .. Edward Schein
Edward Schein
NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York
No. 31-8799000
Qualified in New YorkCounty.
Commission Expires March 30, 1956
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