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WILHELM REICH

From Conspiracies and Secret Societies
For refusing to obey a U.S. Pure Food and Drug Administration injunction to cease experimentation with cosmic “orgone” energy and UFOs, Wilhelm Reich was sentenced to prison, where, eight months later, he died. The discoveries, harassment, trial, and final silencing of Wilhelm Reich stretched over some three decades. Many of Reich's scientific writings, including books that are considered classics in medicine, psychoanalysis, sociology, and natural science, were condemned by the Pure Food and Drug Administration. Reich was born March 24, 1897, in imperial Austria. In 1918 he entered the University of Vienna, where he completed the six-year course for a medical degree in four years, graduating in 1922. While still in medical school he attained membership in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society under Professor Sigmund Freud. Reich was acknowledged as a brilliant new light on the psychoanalytic horizon. From 1924 to 1930 he was the director of the Seminar for Psychoanalytic Therapy and first…
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Full text Article Reich, Wilhelm (1897–1957)

From Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained
Austrian psychoanalyst. Wilhelm Reich was born in Galicia, in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied medicine in Vienna, but became a follower of sigmund freud and a practising psychoanalyst before completing his medical training. He developed a particular interest in sexuality, and formed the…
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Full text Article Reich, Wilhelm 1897–1957.

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A film (1971) by the Yugoslav writer and director Dusan Makavajev (b. 1932). WR is Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), the Austrian psychoanalyst who, in The Function of Orgasm (1927), argued that frequent orgasms were necessary for the avoidance of neurosis. He advocated both sexual and political…
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Full text Article Passive-Aggressive Personality

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Passive-aggressive personality is a condition formerly classified as personality disorder. Formerly listed among the personality disorders in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , the passiveaggressive personality type has been described by a…
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Full text Article REICH'S ORGONE/ORGONOMY THEORY

From Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
The Austrian-born American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich , (1897-1957) formulated a “dissident” psychoanalytic theory called the orgone theory , which is based on the assumption that a specific form of energy called orgone energy fills all space and accounts for all life (cf., bioenergetics theory - …
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From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was an Austrian psychiatrist and a major thinker who combined psychoanalytic and political frameworks in order to understand human behavior. While still a medical student at the University of Vienna in 1920, Reich joined Sigmund Freud's Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. He was…
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From American Biographies: American Social Leaders and Activists
(b. 1897–d. 1957) health reformer A psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich promoted the idea that an invisible energy force, called orgone, permeated the universe. He was born on March 24, 1897, in Dobrzcynica, Galicia, to a farming family. According to Reich's autobiography, his childhood was characterized…
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