Rationality and Irrationality in Ryke Geerd Hamer’s System for Holistic Treatment of Metastatic Cancer

Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrik

Scientific Word Journal, 2005/5, p. 93-102

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine if the ”medical laws“ found by the German physician Ryke Geerd Hamer are substantiated by contemporary holistic medical theory. He developed a psychosomatic theory after a personal emotional trauma that he believed resulted in his subsequent development of a testicular cancer. From our analysis, it is clear that the two most fundamental principles of Hamer’s work, the psychosomatic ”iron law of cancer“ (Hamer’s first ”law“) and the principle of pathogenesis being reversed into salutogenesis (Hamer’s second ”law“), are well-established principles of holistic medicine today.