Utopianism in psychology: the case of Wilhelm Reich.

The strange case of Wilhelm Reich.

As far as the editors can determine, the following article by Mildred Edie Brady reprinted from the New Republic of May 26,1947, with the permission of the editors and the author, is a valid presentation of ““The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich.”” In view of the fact that the author of the article suggested that members of the medical profession had not themselves made sufficient effort to warn t...

Reich, Psychoanalysis, and the Body

1. Reich and the human body in social theory Wilhelm Reich became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1920, whilst still a medical student. During the l920s and early 1930s, his work on psychoanalytic theory led to the publication of two major books, The Function of the Orgasm (1927; henceforth FO) and Character Analysis (1934; henceforth CA). In the former, he argued that the bloc...

The Bions: An Investigation into the Origin of Life

Contents Preface 3 PART ONE The Experiment 1 . The Tension - Charge Formula

Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

In the early 1900s, Japanese psychiatrist Shōma Morita, MD (1874-1938) developed a sequential approach to therapy that emerged from his theory of consciousness.[1] Outside psychoanalytic studies, Morita’s portrayal of consciousness in the field of psychological medicine remains incomparable.[2] In fact, Morita refined his therapeutic methods through extensive case study with as much rigour as h...