Theodore Wolfe wrote a small book addressing the worst of it ( Emotional Plague Versus Orgone Biophysics: The 1947 Campaign, Orgone Institute Press, NY, 1948) - but nothing worked to halt the onslaught. Reich and his associates did their best to counter the smears with their own published articles and legal approaches - his associate Dr. Then there were the published smears in American magazines, newspapers and books in the 1940s and 1950s, written by cloaked Stalinists such as Mildred Brady and Martin Gardner, happily reprinted into a few unethical medical journals by some of the same angry psychoanalysts. Most of them fled with Reich to the USA for shelter from the storm of WW-II, where the whispering campaigns continued. Around the same time, there was the whispering smear campaigns against him by the European psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, many of whom had plotted to have him expelled from the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) at the same time they were asking Jewish members to quietly resign, so they could better "get along" with the Nazi regime. There was the 1930s Norwegian press smear campaign against him, launched in newspapers by the Nazis and Communist Party whom his writings simultaneously offended. But that is a rather mild description of the controversial nature of Dr. So it is not surprising that he would "kick up some dust" within carefully guarded circles. Certainly it was and remains controversial. I could continue this abbreviated list for several paragraphs, and a small library of books has already been written on the subject of his work. Wilhelm Reich: Physician and natural scientist, protege of Freud, therapeutic innovator, social reformer and anti-fascist freedom fighter, researcher into the bioelectric nature of emotion and sexuality, investigator of cancer biophysics and the origins of life, discoverer of a specific life energy, the orgone, and inventor of the orgone energy accumulator, developer of an apparatus to trigger rains in droughty or desert regions. There is no figure in 20th Century science and medicine who has been so badly maligned in the popular media as the late Dr. Other Reviews of the Turner "Orgasmatron" Book Reich's Bioelectric Experiments, and the Lie About "Masturbation of Patients"īetrayal of Reich by Michael Silvert with Slanders from TurnerĪurora Karrer's Confusions, and Reich's Last Years More Nasty Accusations: Insanity and Pornography Repeating Old Slanders: The Mildred Brady Smears Turner's Background and Credentials For this Effort Turner's 2004 Swipe at Reich, Orgonomy and Summerhill School More Recent Books on Reich and His Orgonomic Science Independent Scientific Confirmations of Reich's DiscoveriesĬlinical Case Studies of Disease Treatment Published Books and Journals by Wilhelm Reichīreakthrough into Orgone Energy and the Orgone Accumulator Wilhelm Reich's Scientific Work and Verifications: (Click on items to skip down to those sections.) "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth "Love, Work and Knowledge are the Wellsprings of Life. The reader is encouraged to obtain that book for the more detailed version with citation references, and other chapters including a Timeline history of Wilhelm Reich's life and discoveries. Available at Amazon and other on-line bookstores, also also from here. James DeMeo: In Defense of Wilhelm Reich: Opposing the 80-Years' War of Mainstream Defamatory Slander Against One of the 20th Century's Most Brilliant Physicians and Natural Scientists, Natural Energy Works, Ashland 2013. It is an early version of a work that was revised with additional detail plus extensive citations and references, and which later appeared in the following book: * This article is posted to internet as a public service. Wilhelm Reich and his Orgonomic ScienceĪgainst Renewed Sexual Slander and Defamation.* DeMeo and OBRL, with new information, publications and eventsĬritical Review of Christopher Turner's Adventures in the OrgasmatronĪ Defense of Dr.
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