![]() ![]() It was this work, in particular, that cemented the rift between Reich and the psychoanalytic establishment. He said he had discovered a form of energy, which he called "orgone," that permeated the atmosphere and all living matter, and he built "orgone accumulators," which his patients sat inside to harness the energy for its reputed health benefits. His work on the link between human sexuality and neuroses emphasized "orgastic potency" as the foremost criterion for psycho-physical health. He was also a controversial figure, who came to be viewed by the psychoanalytic establishment as having gone astray or as having succumbed to mental illness. Synthesizing material from psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, economics, sociology, and ethics, his work influenced writers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, A. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. Jewish Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. ![]()
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