Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst of the second generation after Sigmund Freud, born in 1897 and died in 1957. After graduating in medicine at the University of Vienna in 1922 he became deputy director of Freud's outpatient clinic, the Vienna Ambulatorium. His books include Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism, and his idea of muscular armour influenced body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy and bioenergetic analysis. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism and set up sexual advisory clinics in Vienna. His later claims about orgone energy and orgone accumulators led to a court injunction in the United States, and he died in prison in 1957.