Wilhelm Reich: a personal biography;

by Ilse Ollendorff Reich

Written by his wife of 14 years, this biography of Wilhelm Reich captures the story of Freud’s brilliant trainee who declared the Sexual Revolution and described the Function of the Orgasm in the 1920s, but ran afoul of the U. S. Government in the 1950s with his claims about Orgone Energy. His books were burned by the U. S. Government in 1956.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

168 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1969

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reich's ex-wife details his life story, emphasizing his later years when she lived and worked closely with him, up until he really went off the deep end. Even though she and he divorced, she remains quite loyal to him and his ideas, not wanting to criticize his rather bizarre pseudoscientific ideas about creating life-force energy, in part because of the government's repression of Reich, including burning his books, etc. A quite interesting story, if tragic.