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Checked out
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Publication
New York, 1972
Description
Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wihelm Reich expanded psychoanalytic resistance into the more inclusive technique of character analysis, in which the sum total of typical character attitudes developed by an individual as a blocking against emotional excitations became the object of treatment. These encrusted attitudes functioned as an "armor," which Reich later found to exist simultaneously in chronic muscular spasms. Thus mind and body came together and character analysis opened the way to a biophysical approach to disease and the prevention of it.
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LibraryThing member HarryMacDonald
Impenetrable, no matter how you stand (or fall) on Reich and his work. Ironic that this book was suppressed by Uncle Sam -- along with everything else he wrote. Uncle's "reasoning" was that they were "advertising" for illegal therapeutic devices.
LibraryThing member CenterPointMN
This third enlarged edition includes all the previously published material as well as a new section expounding Reich's later discoveries. It reveals how his study of character led to a comprehension of the biological basis of neuroses and finally to the discovery of the cosmic orgone energy. thus,
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character analysis is taken our or the realm of psychology and put on the firm basis of natural science, in the form of orgone biophysics. Show Less
LibraryThing member CenterPointMN
This third enlarged edition includes all the previously published material as well as a new section expounding Reich's later discoveries. It reveals how his study of character led to a comprehension of the biological basis of neuroses and finally to the discovery of the cosmic orgone energy. thus,
Show More
character analysis is taken our or the realm of psychology and put on the firm basis of natural science, in the form of orgone biophysics. Show Less
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Language
Original language
German
Original publication date
1933
ISBN
0374120749 / 9780374120740