I want to say at the outset that the body- and character- based therapy started by Reich has changed my life and pleasure like nothing else has. I am grateful, and surely he was a genius and also courageous.... Psychotherapy is almost entirely composed of very nice people, both on the receiving end (patients) and the sending end (therapists). Sometimes it takes a not nice person like Reich to make it all effective. In character...
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I knew Myron, call me Myron, not Dr. Sharaf, a wonderful, sweet, tiger of a man. The only person who could over shadow Myron was Dr.Reich. Myron's biography is only as fascinating as the man he is trying to describe. The problem we all face is how do we stand in the shadow of Dr. Reich. Myron all biographers face the impossible task of describing a revolutionary force beyond its understanding. So it doesn't matter how thorough...
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Wilhelm Reich was many things in his lifetime- a student of Freud, a political activist, a research scientist, and an inventor. His work was decades ahead of its time and is finally being rediscovered and reevaluated by the public. If, like me, you are interested in Reich and his work, you might want to check out a novel called We All Fall Down, by Brian Caldwell. it draws heavily on Reich's theories, particularly Listen...
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This has to be one of the best biographies ever written. It is certainly the best ever written about Reich. You will not be able to put it down or forget it after you've read it. The effort that went into presenting all of the aspects of Reich's life and work is staggering. That extraordinary flame of humanity, Willhelm Reich, is presented here as never before. Bravo!
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An extraordinary read, totally compelling as you follow Reich through the traumas of the twentieth century, his own grip on reality fragmenting all the time. And yet he remains a strangely attractive character - sure he is a "crackpot" but the book forces you to re-examine conventional views of society and science. The author, although obviously an enthusiast for Reich's idiosyncratic "Weltanschauung", never flinches from...
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