Gumpelmann: Germany's answer to "Mount Misery"

[Otto]

Publisher's information

In this brilliant comic novel Karl Koehler paints a nightmarish picture of
his former psychiatric colleagues and their drug studies.

Gumpelmann, an alter ego of the author, confronts an all-powerful
psychiatric establishment intent on pushing through its agenda at all costs.
In this instance it is the drug oneirine - first described in Thomas
Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow-that psychiatrists believe holds the key to
developing the ultimate paranoid mouse.

Who then could better describe the sexual humiliations and numerous forms of
never-ending dependency originating in a clinic with an academic dog-eat-dog
mentality primarily geared to doing the bidding of the drug companies than a
psychiatric insider?

A funny, corrosive and entirely absorbing novel written in the subversive
tradition of American postmodern literature, which could just as well have
been entitled "Sex, Drugs and Doo Wop."

About the Author

Karl Koehler was born in Manhattan in 1935, grew up in the Bronx and, after
studying at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, completed his medical
studies in Innsbruck. After finishing his psychiatric residency in Cornell,
Heidelberg and the State Hospital in Marburg, he became a Privatdozent in
Heidelberg; later he accepted an appointment as head of Social Psychiatry at
the University Psychiatric Clinic in Bonn. He is presently living in
retirement with his wife in the Bonn-Cologne area.

http://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/books/koehler-e.htm

http://www.antipsychiatrieverlag.de/verlag/titel/koehler.htm

Credits to Mike Sullivan

Otto