Conflict on new cancer theory
THE SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES, June 4, 1982
A German doctor – who fell victim to a malignant tumour soon after the death of his son – has developed a new theory on cancer. Because his theory contradicts current scientific medicine teachings, he was asked to recant or leave his job as chief resident at a clinic, reports KLAUS DALLIBOR in MUNICH.
A GERMAN Internist, now living in Rome, has developed a new theory on the genesis of cancer, completely contrary to traditional views.
According to the physician, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, the dreaded disease is not caused by a poisoned environment, viruses or genetic disposition – as is generally assumed by researchers – but rather by a personal conflict the patient has experienced.
Dr Hamer has made this theory the subject of his habilitation paper submitted to the medical faculty of Tuebingen University which accepted it[?].
What triggered Dr Hamer’s way of thinking was his own falling victim to a malignant tumour shortly after the lingering death of his son Dirk who was shot and injured off Corsica by a descendant of the kind of Italy in august 1978, and succumbed to his wounds four months later.
Dr Hamer is convinced his own illness is the outward, physical manifestation of the unresolved psychological conflict brought about by his son’s agony.
The physician, until October of last year chief resident at a clinic near Munich, says he has tested his theory on 500 cases of cancer at the university hospitals of Munich, Rome, Kiel and Cologne.
Because of this theory, which contradicts current scientific medicine teachings, he was asked to recant or go.
Hamer preferred to go. He said that in a letter to the German Medical Association he had pledged to give up his physician’s approbation if his findings were proved incorrect.
He had offered to do this in the event that anyone could produce three concrete cancer cases – meticulously examined and absolutely free of doubt as to histology – that contradicted his theory.
The results he had arrived at in his studies had been summarised in a paper called Iron Rule of Cancer, he said.
According to the paper, three criteria exist for the genesis of malignant tumours, the first of which is called [*Dirk] Hamer Syndrome in commemoration of the doctor’s son.
This is Hamer’s theory:
1. Cancer develops on a certain day after a subject has experienced an incisive conflict, and always if and when one afflicted feels physically, socially or mentally isolated. Cancer springs into existence the more easily the poorer the subject’s health is – the decisive element always being his or her subjective view of the conflict experienced (first criterion or [Dirk] Hamer Syndrome).
2. The nature of the conflict determines the location of the cancerous growth.
3. The illness develops parallel to the development of the conflict.
Cancer of the breast, for example, is triggered by general human conflicts such as between mother and child. In men, similar conflicts cause bronchogenic carcinoma. Round-celled lung cancer, Dr Hamer says, always develops from fear of death.
According to the physician, not only the conflict is decisive for the outbreak of cancer, but also its duration.
Thus, cancer of the breast is usually noticed after two or three month, cancer of the neck of the womb after 12 months and bronchogenic carcinoma after 18 months.
Dr Hamer has developed these theses from the results of the examinations he carried out; cancer is the result of a programming error in the brain of man or animal – a constant short-circuit, as it were, in the brain’s electric field.
This causes “faulty codes” to be issued which create degeneration at the cells – or cancer. The growth of cancer comes to an end when the conflict ends.
This is the point where Hamer’s theory begins. “What is important is to understand the conflict and to eliminate it”, he says. “That is not always possible, but can be done much more frequently than is generally thought. The conflict must be really removed, and that cannot always be done by psychotherapy.”
The bankruptcy of a merchant suffering from cancer, for example, would have to be “truly erased” if the man’s health was to improve.
Tuebingen University has promised Dr Hamer a “fair habilitation procedure”. However, the [Dirk] Hamer Syndrome, insiders said, was causing the professors a considerable headache. – DPA Features.
