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International Association Against Psychiatric Assault

c/o Lawyer/Rechtsanwalt André Raeber, Hinterbergstrasse 24, 6312 Steinhausen, Schweiz/Switzerland

The association is a Human Rights organization that opposes psychiatric coercion and aims to abolish psychiatric coercive measures altogether, promoting the fundamental rights of self-determination, liberty, and human dignity.

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German TV-Report on the Postel experiment


1)
Gert Postel’s only degree was his letterhead. 2) The
psychiatric clinic where he was head physician.3) A sign in the
“Gert Postel clinic”.
4) Gert Postel in court in 1999. 5) Queuing public to Postel’s
reading in Dresden City Hall while he is being interviewed by the Saxonian
state TV channel. 6) Postel reads from his book in a packed hall.

BEFORE
Prof. Kallert before
Prof. Kallert is full of expectation to extol his achievements on coercive
treatment to the TV public.

AFTER
Prof. Kallert after
Prof. Kallert is really
disgusted with the media for
only being interested in the
Postel experiment.

see
and hear our reaction to the answer
by psychiatrist Prof. Kallert (WPA congress organizer)
to the Postel experiment in the TV report below

Transcript of the German TV reportage on the Postel
experiment 7.06.’07

You
certainly still remember Gert Postel well, the convincing imposter, who
curiously without training and also without problems managed to work
his way up to Head Physician in Saxonia? In 1999 he was sentenced to 4
years detention for repeated fraud and falsifying documents. Meanwhile
Postel lives in Marburg and writes books.

From
postman to Head Physician of a psychiatric hospital, not everyone can
achieve that! Gert Postel, imposter from Bremen succeeded that
temporary jump into the honourable society.


MDR:
How are you?
Gert Postel:
Very well, of course!

Flash
back: In the mid- 90’s Postel from the post office sneaked into a post
in the medical service. With falsified references and an absurd
lecture, Postel struck the 40 other doctors from the field, became a
Head Physician in the Zadrasch psychiatric hospital in Leipzig.

Postel: “There
the chairman asked me: ‘What did you write your doctorate about?’ and
I replied: ‘About cognitive induced distortions of the stereotyped judgement
formation’. That is a lining up of empty terms and his only answer was:
“Yes, oh you will certainly feel at ease in Leipzig”, you know? And
that as imposter among imposters!”

The committee
was overwhelmed! Postel soon became a Supervising Head Physician. A
world congress of psychiatrists in Dresden now once again prods the
48 year-old into action : “All hot air there!”, according to
Postel. “I was training representative for
the Saxonian Chamber of Doctors, which in itself is a joke. I introduced
disease terms which do not even exist, e.g. the ‘bipolar depression
of the third degree’, in front of 120 psychiatrists and not a single
one dared to ask a question.”


MDR:
Mr. Postel with regard to psychiatry is – let’s say – a great sceptic.
Does he have a good reason to be one?

Prof. Kallert:
[Shrugging his shoulders] Oh, you know, Mr. Postel is – as far
as I know – a convicted imposter.

Actually one shouldn’t
believe anything an imposter tells you. Nevertheless in the evening
hundreds of people came to Postel’s reading in the Dresden City Hall.
The self-named “social critic” was content.

[Opinions
from the public:]

“He is clever and I am a sympathizer, if you want an exact reply.”


“I have no idea. I am here because I would like to see an imposter.”

“Somehow I compare him with the “Captain of Koepenick.”

 

In autumn Gert Postel
will publish his new book, because he certainly does not want to be
a postman anymore. We can definitely trust him about that!

Excerpt from Postel’s talk to the audience at
his reading in the Dresden City Hall

Prof.
Thomas Kallert is the organizer of this strange Congress of World
Psychiatry and a few weeks ago Prof. Kallert spoke with the department
head for culture of the news magazine “Der Spiegel” and they intently
discussed the subject of psychopathology, namely the psychological
illness of Gert Postel.

In answer to the question by
this Mr. Matussek, the editor from “Der Spiegel”, as to whether Mr.
Postel would have been able to fool him, he replied:
“After 5 min flat during the
job interview I would have seen through him.”
Even today, Prof. Kallert
is still of the opinion that he really telephoned with the department
head for culture of “Der Spiegel”.

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