Often dismissed as a charlatan after his death, Reich’s ideas about the links between sex and mental health inspired many in former Yugoslavia – from anti-war to gay activists. Charlatan, pervert, ...

Comments Wilhelm Reich: A reassessment - Robert Ollendorf Submitted by Fozzie on November 28, 2024 Copied to clipboard Ilse Ollendorff Reich has just published a book on the life of her husband, ...

Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the U.S. government burned many of his books and other ...

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Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character ...

Ilse Ollendorff Reich has just published a book on the life of her husband, Wilhelm Reich.1 I will review the book shortly before discussing the theme of this essay, the influence of Reich’s work on ...

When Wilhelm Reich died in prison in 1957, he was a scientist disgraced. Remembered, if at all, as the inventor of the orgone accumulator (William S. Burroughs and William Steig, among others, were ...

Today when sex combines with politics, the likely result is humiliation. We think of the crotch shot, the Sofitel suite, the airport restroom stall, the stained blue dress. The sex, which we see as ...

When Wilhelm Reich, the most brilliant of the second generation of psychoanalysts who had been Freud's pupils, arrived in New York in August 1939, only a few days before the outbreak of war, he was ...

Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich had his books burned by the U.S. government in the 1950s and died in prison 50 years ago, in prison basically for refusing to agree with the FDA that his work and devices ...

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