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Abstract
This article is an attempt to cover the scope and development of body-psychotherapy, from Reich's early work in Europe to the growth of different methods of body-psychotherapy, mainly in the USA, subsequent to his death 50 years ago.
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1 His expulsion was described as a ‘great injustice’ by Anna Freud (Boadella, Citation1973, p. 114).
2 To be developed in a later article.
3 There is a general requirement to be a qualified medical doctor and a psychiatrist, before training as a medical orgnomist, practising orgonomic therapy.
4 American College of Orgonomy: www.orgonomy.org
5 See Journal of Orgonomy: www.orgonomy.org/bookstore/listing_complete.html
6 American College of Orgonomy: www.orgonomy.org and Public Orgonomic Research Exchange: www.orgone.org
7 The books of Alexander Lowen include: (2006) The Language of the Body: Physical Dynamics of Character Structure; (1965) Love and Orgasm; (2004) Betrayal of the Body: The Psychology of Fear and Terror; (2004) Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life; (1977) Depression and the Body; (2003) Fear of Life; (2004) Joy, Love, Sex, and Your Heart; (2005) Spirituality of the Body: Bioenergetics for Grace and Harmony; (2004) Honoring the Body: The Autobiography of Alexander Lowen; (2005) The Voice of the Body: The Role of the Body in Psychotherapy: all reprinted by Alachua, FL: Bioenergetics Press; (1975) Love and Orgasm: A Revolutionary Guide to Sexual Fulfillment. New York, New York: Collier Books; (1994) Bioenergetics; (1994) Depression and the Body: the Biological Basis of Faith and Reality; (1995) Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life. New York, New York: Penguin Compass; (1997) Narcissism: Denial of the True Self. New York, New York: Touchstone.
8 I vividly remember Eva Reich, in a workshop in London in the late 1970s, stating that, as a trained paediatrician, she was often asked but would never attend a home birth herself, as she had been ‘trained in pathology’ and so would essentially be sitting there waiting for something to go wrong. ‘You do not want that sort of energy at a home birth.’
9 Sheila Kitzinger's books include titles like: The new experience of childbirth; Birth your way; The politics of birth; The politics of breastfeeding; The complete book of pregnancy and childbirth; Safer childbirth? A critical history of maternity care.
10 Michel Odent's books include titles like: Birth And Breastfeeding: Rediscovering The Needs Of Women During Pregnancy And Childbirth; The Caesarean; Farmer and the Obstetrician; Birth Reborn; The Scientification of Love; Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday; Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth.
11 William Bates developed a method eye exercises to help people see better without using glasses.
12 Samuel Renshaw, a US psychologist, famous during World War Two, who worked with speed-reading and enhancing the mind's latent abilities. He believed most people only used a fraction of their available brainpower. His students could read up to about 1200 words per minute.
13 A drug treatment centre near Santa Monica, California.
14 Karlfried Durckheim was an influential theologist in Germany in the 1950s promoting Zen Buddhism. He founded a therapy centre for ‘… existential and psychological formation and encounter’.
15 Esalen: a therapy centre in Big Sur, California, where Humanistic Psychology virtually started; where Fritz Perls, Stan Grof, and several others were at times resident, in an idyllic setting overlooking the Pacific Ocean with hot sulphur springs and baths.
16 Artist for Reich (Citation1972).
17 An actor who wrote a book about his Reichian therapy (Bean, Citation1971).
18 Song ‘Cloudbusting’ on ‘Children of the Night’ album: www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Cloudbusting-lyrics-November
19 Sharaf (Citation1983); p. 480.
20 Reich's letters and journals collected by the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust have been published in three volumes so far: Reich, Wilhelm: Passion of Youth (Pre 1934), Beyond Psychology (1934–1939), and American Odyssey (1940–1947). New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.
21 USABP website: www.usabp.org
22 At Naropa University, Boulder, CO; California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA; JFK University, Berkeley, CA; and Santa Barbara University, Santa Barbara, CA, as well as courses at Prescott College, Arizona and the Center for Somatic Studies, New York.