WILHELM REICH (1897-1957) was a Viennese psychiatrist and advocate of sexual education and freedom who developed a system of psychoanalysis that concentrated on overall character structure rather than on individual neurotic symptoms.  The author of several influential books — notably THE FUNCTION OF THE ORGASM (1927), CHARACTER ANALYSIS (1933), and THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM (1933) — he became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.

Reich tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism, arguing that neurosis is rooted in sexual and socio-economic conditions, and in particular in a lack of what he called "orgastic potency".  He took to the streets in a mobile clinic, promoting adolescent sexuality and the availability of contraceptives, abortion and divorce, a provocative message in Catholic Austria.  From the 1930s he became an increasingly controversial figure.  His message of sexual liberation disturbed the psychoanalytic community and his political associates, and his vegetotherapy, in which he massaged his disrobed patients to dissolve their "muscular armour", violated the key taboos of psychoanalysis.  He moved to New York in 1939, in part to escape the Nazis, and shortly after arriving coined the term "orgone"—from "orgasm" and "organism"—for a biological energy he said he had discovered, which he said others called God.  In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators, devices that his patients sat inside to harness the reputed health benefits, leading to newspaper stories about sex boxes that cured cancer.

In 1947 the U.S. administration obtained an injunction against the interstate shipment of orgone accumulators and his associated publications, believing they were dealing with a "fraud of the first magnitude".  Charged with contempt in 1956 for having violated the injunction, Reich was sentenced to two years imprisonment, and that summer over six tons of his publications were burned by order of the court.  He died in prison of heart failure just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.

Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's "The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence" (1936), and his idea of muscular armour shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy.  His writing influenced generations of intellectuals, including Saul Bellow, William Burroughs, A. S. Neill, and Michel Foucault.  Reich coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife.  During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" at police.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:

* Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety (FSG, 1982).
* Bion Experiments, The  (FSG, 1979).
* Cancer Biopathy, The [Discovery of the Orgone, Vol. II] (FSG, 1973).
* Character Analysis, 3rd edition (FSG, 1990).  Third, enlarged edition.
* Children of the Future (FSG, 1983).
* Early Writings, Vol. I (FSG, 1975).
* Ether, God and Devil/Cosmic Superimposition (FSG, 1973).
* Function of the Orgasm [Discovery of the Orgone, Vol. I] (FSG, 1973).
* Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis [Early Writings, Vol. II] (FSG, 1980).
* Impulsive Character and Other Writings, The (Meridian, 1974) — PDF
* Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality, The (FSG, 1971).
* Listen, Little Man! (FSG, 1974).
* Mass Psychology of Fascism (FSG, 1980).
* Murder of Christ (FSG, 1953).
* Orgonomic Functionalism [Journal] (1990-1996).  6 volumes. — PDF
* People in Trouble (FSG, 1976). — PDF
* Reich Speaks of Freud (FSG, 1967).
* Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy (FSG, 1961).
* Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 (Verso, 2012).
* Sexual Revolution, The (FSG, 1974).

== AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, LETTERS & JOURNALS ==

* American Odyssey: Letters & Journals 1940-1947 (FSG, 1999). Higgins, ed. — PDF
* Beyond Psychology: Letters & Journals 1934-1939 (FSG, 1994). Higgins, ed.
* Passion of Youth: An Autobiography 1897-1922 (FSG, 1988). Higgins & Raphael, eds.
* Record of a Friendship: Correspondence w/ A.S. Neill (FSG, 1981). Placzek, ed. — PDF
* Where's the Truth: Letters & Journals 1948-1957 (FSG, 2012). Higgins, ed.

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