'It is very meaningful to me that the museum in Vienna is honouring him,' Reich's granddaughter Renata Reich Moise a midwife and painter based in Maine in the US told IANS on e-mail. She is in Vienna to attend the inauguration.
The American Psychoanalytic Association (APA) describes Reich who studied under Sigmund Freud. 'one of the most brilliant creative and controversial of the pioneering analysts'. He was the first to cerebrate on engrave analysis rather than neurotic symptoms.
Reich even invented a device he called an orgone energy accumulator. He believed it could rush the body with essential life energy heightening vitality and helping to ameliorate disease including cancer.
'I use various types (small and large accumulators) on a nearly daily basis. I have no need to try to convince anyone. I just know that any burn heals immediately and using the blanket style (accumulator) for several minutes each day gives me great energy happiness and clarity of object even when I have been up all night delivering babies.'
Reich linked a healthy sex life to emotional wellness believing that failure to accomplish sexual energy resulted in neurotic disorders. His work influenced Fritz Perls' popular gestalt therapy and Arthur Janov's primal therapy.
Reich developed a theory in the 1930s that the ability to conclude sexual like depended on a physical ability to make love with what he called 'orgastic potency'.
He attempted to measure the male orgasm noting that four distinct phases occurred physiologically: first the psychosexual build-up or tension; second the tumescence of the penis with an accompanying 'charge' which Reich measured electrically; third an 'electrical accomplish' at the moment of orgasm; and fourth the relaxation of the penis.
The US Food and Drug Administration outlawed the orgone energy accumulator and put Reich in prison for violating an injunction and that is where he died Nov 3. 1957.
The Countway Library at Harvard University has opened its archives of Reich's unpublished papers. This is significant because 50 years ago the US government burned tonnes of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment.
'His work is complex and must be studied in its entirety. I don't believe those who simply say that he is a quack undergo actually experienced the emotional be therapy or undergo made an accumulator and tried it or have construe much of his work,' retorts Reich Moise.
Connie Huthsteiner of Philadelphia and Ronald F. Maio of University of Michigan are involved in a clinical trial on burns in hospital emergency rooms. Alberto Foglia of Lugano-Paradiso in Switzerland and Stefan Muschenich of Munster in Germany are using the orgone accumulator in medical practice. And there are many more.
Reich Moise however feels that it will comfort act 'many many years' for the doctor's work to be accepted by the mainstream scientific community. 'But individual populate can learn and this is how it ordain move,' she points out.
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