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Reich, Wilhelm ___ 1897-1957 ___ Austrian
___ psychologist
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Reich was born in Galicia, which
was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (although it is now in Ukraine).
Shortly after his father's death in 1914, he was obliged to flee his home
when the Russian army invaded. During the First World War he served with
the Austrian Army, and then entered medical school at the University of
Vienna. In October 1920, he joined the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association,
and thereafter worked at University Hospital and at Freud's Polyanalytic
Polyclinic. He also studied neuropsychiatry under the nobel prize winner,
Professor Wagner-Jauregg. In 1924, Reich married Annie Pink, a fellow analyst-in-training.
Their first daughter, Eva, was born the same year; a second daughter followed
in 1928. After divorcing in 1934, Reich re-married in 1946, and his second
wife, Ilse Ollendorf, bore him a son, Peter. In 1930, he moved to Berlin
where he joined the Communist Party, but the party did not accept his views
on birth control and sex education and expelled him in 1933. His unique
ideas on sexuality and politics (he believed regular orgasms were the way
to mental health) led him outside mainstream medicine. The International
Psychological Association expelled him in 1934. He fled from the Nazis,
spending a few years in Scandinavia before going to the US in 1939. Most
of the latter part of his life was dedicated to developing controversial
ideas on 'orgone' energy, through his Orgone Institute. He died in prison,
where he was serving a two year term for illegalities in the selling of
his 'orgone energy accumulator'.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1919-1921 ___ self love/sex psychology
WEB TEXT LINKS
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Rare
Books and Special Collections at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard
University
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
In Passion of Youth
May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |