Name: Character Analysis
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Author: Wilhelm Reich
ISBN: 9781952000140

Type

Physical Book

Author

Wilhelm Reich

Translated by

Vincent R. Carfagno

Publisher

WRM Press

Language

English

Pages

474

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9781952000140

Synopsis "Character Analysis"

Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wilhelm 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.

Wilhelm Reich

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Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst and physician, known for his controversial theories on sexuality and vital energy. He was born in a Central European context marked by social and political tensions, which influenced his thinking. Initially, Reich was a disciple of Sigmund Freud, but soon developed his own ideas that challenged psychoanalytic orthodoxy. In the early 1930s, he introduced the concept of "orgone," a supposed universal vital energy that, according to him, influenced physical and mental health.

Reich was also an advocate for sexual freedom and opposed the repression of sexuality, arguing that sexual inhibition caused emotional and psychological disorders. His works on sexuality and psychotherapy were innovative, but generated great controversy.

After the rise of Nazism, Reich emigrated to the United States in 1939, where he continued his research on orgone and developed devices such as the "orgone accumulator." His theories were widely criticized and, in 1956, the U.S. FDA confiscated his equipment. Reich died in 1957 in prison, leaving a controversial and pioneering legacy in psychotherapy and alternative medicine.

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