Description: Comes with free bookmark. Before he died in the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1957, Wilhelm Reich had made an impact on the world that still makes itself felt today, in our most powerful contemporary literature, in the revolution of today's youth. Toward the end of his life, Reich had become to many a hero who could do no wrong : to others he was just that mad scientist obsessed with sex. But to all who knew the man or his work, there was no doubt of one thing: Reich was a genius, who reacted to his times wit ha ferocious intensity matched only by the intensity with which the times reacted to him. As an assistant of Freud's in Vienna, Reich soon discarded relatively passive methods of analysis for the more active therapy of counting a patient's whole was of behavior, including muscular expressions and posture, in diagnosis and treatment.At the same time he felt it an obligation of the psychotherapist to treat not only the problems of the individual, but the problems of the society in which the individual reacts. For Reich, psychiatry led to politics, and he devised a synthesis of Freudianism and Marxism that was finally rejected by Freudians and Marxists alike. In 1934, his daring work on The Mass Psychology of Fascism made German psychoanalysts so anxious that they expelled him from their society. Reich fled to Scandinavia, but there too his theories of sex and politics proved too frightening to the authorities. At last he found refuge in the United States where he founded his Orgone Institute in Forest Hills, New York. He was to die in prison his name abused by a sensation-hungry press, his books of all descriptions burnt as medical heresies under the labeling laws of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Ilse Ollendorff Reich, Wilhelm Reich's wife and mother of his son, as well as his secretary and assistant for many years, has written not a scientific or psychological evaluation, but a dignified and moving personal biography of her late husband.
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Publication Year: 1969
Format: Hardcover
Language: english
Book Title: Wilhelm Reich; a personal biography
Book Series: Historical
Author: Ilse Ollendorff Reich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Genre: Biography
