Wilhelm Reich
Academic and Psychiatrist
Wilhelm Reich...him, calling his ideas about orgone a "surrealist creation." Mildred Brady's The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich, The New Republic, May 26, 1947. His reputation took a sudden downturn in May 1947. On May 26, an article by freelance writer... In this article: Wilhelm Reich, Myron Sharaf, Food and Drug Administration, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, and Cancer |
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Tucson Citizen | November 03, 2009
UFOs, Orgasms and the Occult: The Tucson Connection
...month residency, but he also claimed he was engaged in a battle with UFOs during his stay. This man's name was Wilhelm Reich. Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who trained under Sigmund Freud in Vienna. He was...
In this article: Tucson, Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley, Food and Drug Administration, Arizona, Kenneth Arnold, Cancer, and Sigmund Freud
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Wikipedia | October 08, 2009
The Fourth Reich
...seems to suggest a continuation of the Third Reich. Actually, the image cover depicts Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalysis Wilhelm Reich with a red armband similar to that used by the nazis , but in this case, the armband had the symbol...
In this article: Fascism, The Fourth Reich, Zurich, Copenhagen, Denmark, Prague, Sigtryggur Baldursson, and UK
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Columbia Daily Tribune | September 20, 2009
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN AREA ARTIST
...a group of "former train-riding crusty punks. " She remains deeply invested in an ongoing project about disgraced scientist Wilhelm Reich. "Sleeper Lake Fire," then, "exists in this real murky area between experimental film and documentary...
In this article: NPR, Rachael Ray, Woody Allen, Anthony Bourdain, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Boston Globe -- Travel | September 05, 2009
Idyllic grounds belie tussle over founder’s research
...that oversimplifies his medical and scientific work, which has been widely misunderstood and distorted, he adds. "Just Google 'orgone' and 'Wilhelm Reich' and you find all kinds of really crazy stuff, most of it untrue. Over 7,000 pages of...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Sigmund Freud, Injunction, Maine, Cancer, Nazi Party, and Immigration and Naturalization Service
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The Australian | August 16, 2009
Revolution still mired at Woodstock
...argot culled from the private languages of the 40s jazz hipsters. All garnished with a light sprinkling of Karl Marx and Wilhelm Reich. Who today remembers that the word "cool" - that mystic talisman which, like a Fender Stratocaster,...
In this article: New York, Woodstock music festival, Philosophy, Christology, Triumphalism, World War II, Star-Spangled Banner, and Fortescue Metals Group
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Wikipedia | August 01, 2009
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...by Mildred Edie Brady, New Republic, May 26, 1947. Source: , Wilhelm Reich Museum, video about Reich's life. Rationale for use in Wilhelm Reich Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and...
In this article: New Republic, FDA, U.S., and Wikipedia
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Independent.co.uk - Books | July 12, 2009
Rosenfeld's Lives, By Steven Zipperstein
...squalor in a succession of Greenwich Village rooms: he died at his desk. The descent was perhaps sped by misplaced enthusiasm for Wilhelm Reich's "orgone box". He had, however, captained a barge for some time - there reciting Shakespeare and...
In this article: Saul Bellow, Irving Howe, Jewish food, Tin, YALE, and William Shakespeare
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Wikipedia | May 18, 2009
American College of Orgonomy
...Baker in 1968. The purpose of the College is to advance the scientific work in the science of orgonomy, originally developed by Dr. Wilhelm Reich. The A.C.O. trains therapists and offers courses in the field of social orgonomy for teachers,...
In this article: Sigmund Freud, Vegetotherapy, The American College, American College of Orgonomy, Psychotherapy, Ola Raknes, and Anxiety
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RealClimate | October 29, 2008
Greenspan, Einstein and Reich
...a personal acquaintance of my great uncle, William Steig, creator of Shrek, and illustrator of ones of Reich's books. Reich thought he had made a major discovery in physics that proved the existence of a previously unrecognized form of energy,...
In this article: Albert Einstein, Carbon dioxide, Alan Greenspan, Entropy, IPCC, Photon, Physics, and Carbon
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 06, 2007
Scientist's Ideas on Sex Re-Examined
RANGELEY, Maine -- Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books and other publications and destroyed...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Injunction, U.S., Psychotherapy, World War II, Cancer, and Harvard Medical School
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Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, and ethics, his work influenced writers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, A. S. Neill, Robert Anton Wilson and William Burroughs.
Reich, of Jewish descent and a communist, was living in Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power. He fled to Scandinavia in 1933 and subsequently to the United States in 1939, by which time he had become an ardent anti-fascist. In 1947, following a series of critical articles about orgone and his political views in The New Republic and Harper's, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began an investigation into his claims, winning an injunction against the interstate sale of orgone accumulators. Charged with contempt of court for violating the injunction, Reich conducted his own defense, which involved sending the judge all his books to read, and arguing that a court was no place to decide matters of science. He was sentenced to two years in prison, and in August 1956, several tons of his publications were burned by the FDA. He died of heart failure in jail just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.
- Birth Date:
- March 24, 1897
- Birthplace:
- Dobrzanica, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
- Death Date:
- November 03, 1957
- Place of Death:
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
- Citizenship:
- Austria, United States
- Residence:
- Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine
- University Attended:
- University of Vienna
- Field:
- Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis
- Known for:
- Freudo-Marxism, body psychotherapy, Orgone
- Influenced By:
- Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx
- Influenced:
- Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, Ronald Laing, Arthur Janov
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