Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
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Austrian psychoanalyst who took Freud's ideas in increasingly unhinged directions—orgone energy, sexual liberation as political cure-all, the works. His 1930s books made him radical even by radical standards; his later years got genuinely weird.
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Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.
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