Psychoanalysts

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Chapters: Alice Miller, Jacques Lacan, Wilhelm Reich, Ola Raknes, Bracha L. Ettinger, R. D. Laing, Erik Erikson, Élisabeth Roudinesco, Wilhelm Stekel, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Luce Irigaray, Jeffrey Satinover, Erna Furman, Mark J. Blechner, Harold Searles, Theodor Reik, Masud Khan, Ronald Fairbairn, Hyman Spotnitz, Heinz Hartmann, Hermann Rorschach, S. H. Foulkes, Harald K. Schjelderup, Joost Meerloo, Rafael E. López-Corvo, Robert Stoller, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Steve Abadie-Rosier, Nina Coltart, Mark Solms, Eric Rhode, Mikita Brottman, Anthony Molino, Stephen A. Mitchell, Nancy Chodorow, Ignacio Matte Blanco, Benjamin B. Rubinstein, Manuel Isaías López, Takeo Doi, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Rudolph Loewenstein, Jacques Hassoun, Rais Amrohvi, Juan-David Nasio, Ross Speck, Adrian Stephen, Max Schur, James Anthony, Magli Elster, Jerome Kavka, Hans Zulliger, Emmanuel Ghent, Mardy S. Ireland, David Rapaport, Heinrich Racker, Miles Groth, Alan Roland, Haydée Faimberg, Sebastián León Pinto, Petro Castelnuovo Tedesco, American Psychoanalytic Association, Darian Leader, Alice Cherki, Joan Copjec. Excerpt: Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 ¿ November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several notable books, including The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Character Analysis, both published in 1933. Reich worked with Sigmund Freud in the 1920s and was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He tried to reconcile Marxism and psychoanalysis, arguing that neurosis is rooted in the physical, sexual, economic, and social conditions of the patient, and promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives, abortion, and divorce, and the importance for women of economic independence. His work influenced a generation of intellectuals, including Saul Bellow, William S. Burroughs, Paul Edwards, Norman Mailer, A. S. Neill, and Robert Anton Wilson, and shaped innovations such as Fritz Perls's Gestalt therapy, Alexander Lowen's bioenergetic analysis, and Arthur Janov's primal therapy. Later in life he became a controversial figure who was both adored and condemned. He began to violate some of the key taboos of psychoanalysis, using touch during sessions, and treating patients in their underwear to improve their "orgastic potency." He said he had discovered a primordial cosmic energy, which he said others called God and that he called "orgone". He built orgone energy accumulators that his patients sat inside to harness the reputed health benefits, leading to newspaper stories about sex boxes that cured cancer. Reich was living in Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933. On March 2 that year the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter published an attack on one of Reich's pamphlets, The Sexual Struggle of Youth. He left immediately for Vienna, then Scandinavia, moving to the United States in 1939. In 1947, following a series of articles about orgone in The New Republic