Wilhelm Reich
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Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's ''The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence'' (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals; he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife. During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'' at police.
After graduating in medicine from the public University of Vienna in 1922, Reich became deputy director of Freud's outpatient clinic, the Vienna Ambulatorium. During the 1930s, he was part of a general trend among younger analysts and Frankfurt sociologists that tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism. He established the first sexual advisory clinics in Vienna, along with Marie Frischauf. He said he wanted to "attack the neurosis by its prevention rather than treatment".
He moved to New York in 1939, after having accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the New School of Social Research. During his five years in Oslo, he had coined the term "orgone energy"—from "orgasm" and "organism"—for the notion of life energy. In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators, modified Faraday cages that he claimed were beneficial for cancer patients. He claimed that his laboratory cancer mice had had remarkable positive effects from being kept in a Faraday cage, so he built human-size versions, where one could sit inside. This led to newspaper stories about "sex boxes" that cured cancer.
Following two critical articles about him in ''The New Republic'' and ''Harper's'' in 1947, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and associated literature, calling them "fraud of the first magnitude". Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court., ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2015; Sharaf (1994), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ddlMl4jJgh0C&pg=PA460 460–461] . James Strick (historian of science), 2015: "In 1956 and again in 1960, officers of the U.S. government supervised the public burning of the books and scientific instruments of Austrian-born scientist Wilhelm Reich. This was one of the most heinous acts of censorship in U.S. history, as New York publisher Roger Straus was heard to remark many times over decades afterward, explaining why his firm, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, steadfastly brought all of Reich's published works back into print beginning in 1960."}} He died in prison of heart failure just over a year later. Provided by Wikipedia
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Character analysis by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Selected writings ; an introduction to orgonomy. by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Ether, God, and Devil. Cosmic superimposition. by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Where's the truth? : letters and journals, 1948-1957 by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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American odyssey : letters and journals, 1940-1947 by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Material published by Dr. Wilhelm Reich. by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The sexual revolution : toward a self-regulating character structure by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The bion experiments on the origin of life by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Sex-pol : essays, 1929-1934 by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The sexual revolution : toward a self-governing character structure by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The discovery of the orgone by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Cosmic superimposition. by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The bioelectrical investigation of sexuality and anxiety by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Selected writings : an introduction to orgonomy by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Character-analysis by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
New York : Orgone Institute Press, 1949
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Passion of youth : an autobiography, 1897-1922 by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Character-analysis. by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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Beyond psychology : letters and journals, 1934-1939 by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The murder of Christ : volume one of The emotional plague of mankind by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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The discovery of the orgone by Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957
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