• Context: Wilhelm Reich's personal motto; the German phrase is found in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1971 [1933]...
  • By about 1978, I had read just about everything I could find to do with Wilhelm Reich.
  • This biographical sketch of Dr. Wilhelm Reich barely covers a fraction of his prolific life and profound works.
  • Wilhelm Reich was born in 1897 in the north-east part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now Ukraine.
  • Wilhelm Reich was a Viennese psychiatrist who developed a system of psychoanalysis that concentrated on overall character structure rather than on individual...
  • In 1922, Wilhelm Reich received his MD degree and began his career in internal medicine at Vienna’s University Hospital.
  • In 1954, three years before his death in a federal penitentiary, Wilhelm Reich led a research expedition to the Southwest to further the study of Orgone Energy.
  • Wilhelm Reich was buried at Orgonon on November 6, 1957, following a simple ceremony conducted according to his written instruction.
  • Amazingly, Wachsmuth presents 4 different types of ether, and one of them, the chemical ether, is described in a very similar way as Reich does.
  • By this time, the FDA had had enough and a court had ordered Wilhelm Reich to stop selling his machines.