Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich ( RYKHE; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈʁaɪç]; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) 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. Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Reich has received more than 3,111,097 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Wilhelm Reich is the 21st most popular psychologist (up from 24th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 28th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Psychologist.

Wilhelm Reich was a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is most famous for his work in the field of sexology. He is best known for his invention of the orgone energy accumulator, which he claimed could cure cancer and other illnesses.