Today's article is the last of a three-part article on Wilhelm Reich. The first article in this series, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 1, discussed who Reich was and why his ideas were so radical and pioneering for his time, the early to mid 20th century. In the second part of this series, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 2, I discussed Reich's discovery of orgone energy, and his … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Reich – Putting the Body in Mind-Body Healing, Part 2
In the last article, Wilhelm Reich - Putting the Body in Mind-Body Medicine, Part 1, I discussed how Reich, an Austrian-American psychiatrist who trained under Sigmund Freud, is the person most responsible for uniting mind and body and pioneering mind-body medicine. And as I mentioned in the article, he is largely forgotten now. Reich died in 1957 a broken man, in prison, having been persecuted by the U.S. government. The year he went to … [Read more...]
Wilhelm Reich – Putting the Body In Mind-Body Healing, Part 1
During this series on The Roots of Healing, I've been writing about different systems of medicine and healing. The last article in this series was on homeopathy. Today I will veer away from discussing systems of healing to discuss a pioneer in the field, someone who put the body back in mind-body medicine. His name was Wilhelm Reich, and he was a man far ahead of his time, but unfortunately he is for the most part forgotten. Born in 1897 in … [Read more...]