PSYCHOLOGIST

Wilhelm Reich

1897 - 1957

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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 3,060,340 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.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Wilhelm Reich ranks 21 out of 235Before him are Gustave Le Bon, Albert Bandura, John B. Watson, Kurt Lewin, Daniel Kahneman, and Irvin D. Yalom. After him are Edward Thorndike, B. F. Skinner, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Gustav Fechner, and Karen Horney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Wilhelm Reich ranks 11Before him are Amelia Earhart, Anthony Eden, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ludwig Erhard, Ivan Konev, and Paavo Nurmi. After him are Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Louis Aragon, Norbert Elias, and Ferenc Szálasi. Among people deceased in 1957, Wilhelm Reich ranks 11Before him are Miklós Horthy, Diego Rivera, Christian Dior, Nikos Kazantzakis, Humphrey Bogart, and Johannes Stark. After him are Arturo Toscanini, Oliver Hardy, Henry van de Velde, Constantin Brâncuși, Gichin Funakoshi, and Gerty Cori.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Wilhelm Reich ranks 33 out of 1,365Before him are Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), Edgar de Wahl (1867), and Sergei Korolev (1906). After him are Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among psychologists born in Ukraine, Wilhelm Reich ranks 1After him are Giacomo Rizzolatti (1937), and Anatol Rapoport (1911).