USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 provided
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Applicants for Intervention
EILEEN WALKENSTEIN May 1, 1954
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MAINE: SOUTHERN DIVISION
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
-against- AFFIDAVIT
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:-
EILEEN WALKENSTEIN, 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 graduated from the University
of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry in June, 1946.
I received my Doctor of Medicine Degree
from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1950.
From July, 1950 to June, 1951, I served
a general rotating interneship at the Bronx Hospital, New York City, and
was licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York in 1951.
In July, 1951, I began a three year
residency in psychiatry at Kingsbridge Veterans' Administration Hospital,
Bronx, New York. As part of the training practice, I spent two months at
Manhatten State Hospital; six months at Lenox Hill Hospital on a part-time
basis and as of June, 1954, I will have spent nine months at the Jewish
Board of Guardians under their training program in child psychiatry.
The rest of the time was spent at the
Kingsbridge Veterans' Administration Hospital, treating patients, attending
conferences, presenting patients to staff conferences.
I have studied and am familiar with
the principles of orgonomy and the use of the orgone accumulator in psychiatry
and as a physician and scientist, I affirm to this Court, the medical validity
of these principles.
I have read and am familiar with the
literature which the injunction in this case seeks to condemn and I affirm
to this Court that such condemnation would be the destruction of valid
scientific information and reports, based upon scientific experiments which
have been of immeasurable help to me as a physician and scientist.
The effect of the injunction in this
case is to curtail my activities in my chosen profession and to prevent
and handicap my growth as a physician and scientist as it does to all of
the other applicants.
These rights of mine to practice my
profession on a scientific basis and to develop as a scientist have not
been adequately represented in the main proceeding and I respectfully join
with the other applicants in the prayer for relief to the end that the
injunction might be vacated and the applicants, myself included, be granted
leave to intervene.
Signed..... Eileen Walkenstein
Sworn to before me this
1st day of May 1954.
Signed... Shirley Blaine
SHIRLEY BLAINE
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 31-0308000
Qualified in New York County
Cert. filed with N. Y. County Clerk
Commission Expires March 30, 1955
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