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'''Biologie totale according to Sabbah''' (''Biological Decoding'', ''Biologie totale des etres vivants, BTEV'', i.e. ''Total Biology of Animate Beings'', also: ''Total Biology, bio-psycho-généalogie'' etc.) is a pseudomedical method invented by former French MD Claude Sabbah. The method is primarily promoted in French-speaking regions and is closely linked to [[Germanic New Medicine]] (GNM). BTEV does not have much access to the German-language Newage market, since this is being covered by GNM, so-called Meta-Medicine and by various Mental Healers. Despite its similarities to GNM, its inventor [[Ryke Geerd Hamer]] fiercely rejects Biologie Totale. Prior to inventing his own method, however, Sabbah participated in a course with Ryke Geerd Hamer who calls Sabbah a former GNM student.  

'''Biologie totale according to Sabbah''' (''Biological Decoding'', ''Biologie totale des etres vivants, BTEV'', i.e. ''Total Biology of Animate Beings'', also: ''Total Biology, bio-psycho-généalogie'' etc.) is a pseudomedical method invented by former French MD Claude Sabbah. The method is primarily promoted in French-speaking regions and is closely linked to [[Germanic New Medicine]] (GNM). BTEV does not have much access to the German-language Newage market, since this is being covered by GNM, so-called Meta-Medicine and by various Mental Healers. Despite its similarities to GNM, its inventor [[Ryke Geerd Hamer]] fiercely rejects Biologie Totale. Prior to inventing his own method, however, Sabbah participated in a course with Ryke Geerd Hamer who calls Sabbah a former GNM student.  

==Total Biology==

==Total Biology==

Proponents view BTEV as a way to explain all causes of illness with simple, primitive approaches. All diseases, according to Sabbah's speculations, were the result of alleged "biological conflicts" which were experienced in an "isolated way", were interceded to the body via so-called relays and never developed coincidentally. At the same time, disease was to be understood as a healing process. According to this concept, there is no incurable disease, but only patients who did not realise their natural healing potential because they were not sufficiently working at "solving their conflicts".  

Proponents view BTEV as a way to explain all causes of illness with simple, primitive approaches. All diseases, according to Sabbah's speculations, were the result of alleged "biological conflicts" which were experienced in an "isolated way", were interceded to the body via so-called relays and never developed coincidentally. At the same time, disease was to be understood as a healing process. According to this concept, there is no incurable disease, but only patients who did not realise their natural healing potential because they were not sufficiently working at "solving their conflicts".  

==Deaths after experiments with BT therapies in Belgium==

==Deaths after experiments with BT therapies in Belgium==

Belgian MD Charles Berliner from Brussels is convinced that at least two patients died following a treatment according to "Total Biology". Fatally ill patients came to see him after a BTEV treatment and died. The death of a patient suffering from breast cancer in the Belgian town of Eupen is being investigated by authorities; a BTEV therapist by the name of Louis Vliegen has been under investigation from 2004, because a patient did not receive any treatment for five months and finally desperately went to a hospital in Liege/Luik where she died a week later.<ref>http://www.prevensectes.com/rev0406.htm</ref><ref>Pascale Gruber: L’arène de Sabbah, Article in Le Vif-L’Express dd. June 11, 2004</ref><ref>Armelle Guivier, Dissertation: Risques d'atteinte a l'integrite physiques encourus par les adeptes de sectes, University of Franche-Compte-Besancon, Dissertation 07-018 April 13, 2007, p. 97 [http://www.miviludes.fr/IMG/pdf/these_medecine_Guivier_Armelle_2007.pdf]</ref> In an announcement on his answering machine, Vliegen outed himself as a BTEV representative for Belgium. Expert Koen Demyttenaere of Royal University of Leuven/Louvain declared that BT was completely unscientific and deplored the fact that the title of a therapist was not legally protected in Belgium.<ref>

Belgian MD Charles Berliner from Brussels is convinced that at least two patients died following a treatment according to "Total Biology". Fatally ill patients came to see him after a BTEV treatment and died. The death of a patient suffering from breast cancer in the Belgian town of Eupen is being investigated by authorities; a BTEV therapist by the name of Louis Vliegen has been under investigation from 2004, because a patient did not receive any treatment for five months and finally desperately went to a hospital in Liege/Luik where she died a week later.<ref>http://www.prevensectes.com/rev0406.htm</ref><ref>Pascale Gruber: L’arène de Sabbah, Article in Le Vif-L’Express dd. June 11, 2004</ref><ref>Armelle Guivier, Dissertation: Risques d'atteinte a l'integrite physiques encourus par les adeptes de sectes, University of Franche-Compte-Besancon, Dissertation 07-018 April 13, 2007, p. 97 [http://www.miviludes.fr/IMG/pdf/these_medecine_Guivier_Armelle_2007.pdf]</ref> In an announcement on his answering machine, Vliegen outed himself as a BTEV representative for Belgium. Expert Koen Demyttenaere of Royal University of Leuven/Louvain declared that BT was completely unscientific and deplored the fact that the title of a therapist was not legally protected in Belgium.<ref>

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleID=7R1R5FAJ</ref><ref>De Standaard, April 23, 2008</ref>

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleID=7R1R5FAJ</ref><ref>De Standaard, April 23, 2008</ref>