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Claimed that the release of energy at orgasm could be measured and used to cure cancer - this unit of energy is called the Orgone. Experimented with rainmaking cloudbuster devices. Imprisoned by the actions of the FDA who ordered all of his equipment and journals destroyed. Died in prison. Children's illustrator <a href="/people/083/000089813/">William Steig</a>, a patient of Reich's, was among the witnesses of Reich's Last Will and Testament and had provided illustrations for his 1948 book "Listen, Little Man!"<p><hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1"><font size=-1>[1] Federal Penitentiary, Lewisburg, PA. </font><p><b>Father:</b> Leon Reich (d. 1914 pneuemonia)<br><b>Mother:</b> Cecilie Reich (d. 1910 second suicide attempt)<br><b>Brother:</b> Robert Reich (b. 1900, d. 1925? tuberculosis)<br><b>Wife:</b> Annie Pink (m. 1924, div. 1934, psychoanalyst)<br><b>Wife:</b> Elsa Lindenberg (open marriage, m. 1933, div. 1939, dancer)<br><b>Wife:</b> Ilse Ollendorff (m. 1946, div. 1951, lab assistant)<br><b>Wife:</b> Aurora Karrer (m. 1955, medical technician)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Eva Reich (b. 1924)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Lore Reich (b. 1928)<br><b>Son:</b> Peter Reich (b. 1944)<br><p> Medical School: <a href="/edu/724/000068520/">MD, University of Vienna (1922)</a><br> Professor: Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (1924)<br><p> <a href="/org/307/000049160/">Communist Party</a> Austria (1928-1930)<br> <a href="/org/307/000049160/">Communist Party</a> Germany (spokesman, 1930-1933)<br> <a href="/event/582/000051429/">Naturalized US Citizen</a> <br> <a href="/lists/857/000354792/">Inmate: Danbury Prison</a> <br> <a href="/lists/742/000134340/">Inmate: Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary</a> <br> <a href="/event/170/000087906/">Heart Attack</a> (Oct-1951)<br> <a href="/crime/366/000050216/">Contempt of Court</a> <br> Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/759/000163270/">Psoriasis</a>, <a href="/lists/060/000089790/">Orgone</a><br> <p> <b>Rotten Library Page:</b><br><a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/wilhelm-reich/">Wilhelm Reich</a><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Function of the Orgasm</i> (<tt>1927</tt>)<br><i>Character Analysis</i> (<tt>1933</tt>)<br><i>Mass Psychology of Fascism</i> (<tt>1933</tt>, banned by Nazis)<br><i>The Sexual Revolution</i> (<tt>1936</tt>)<br><i>The Bion</i> (<tt>1938</tt>)<br><i>Bion Experiments and the Cancer Problem</i> (<tt>1939</tt>)<br><i>The Murder of Christ</i> (<tt>1946</tt>)<br><i>The Cancer Biopathy</i> (<tt>1948</tt>)<br><i>Listen, Little Man!</i> (<tt>1948</tt>)<br><i>Ether, God and Devil</i> (<tt>1951</tt>)<br><i>Cosmic SuperImposition</i> (<tt>1951</tt>)<br><i>People in Trouble</i> (<tt>1953</tt>)<br><i>Contact with Space</i> (<tt>1957</tt>)<br><i>Creation</i> (<tt>1957</tt>, written in prison, lost manuscript)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=53688"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=53688">Wilhelm Reich</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=53688" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>