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In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.

That's not true. Reich wanted to release suppressed and blocked mental and emotional energy for it to be integrated into the personality, rather than repressed unconsciously. This is far, far different from what is being claimed here.

An example is a soldier suffering from combat PTSD being able to re-experience the feelings of horror in such a way that he doesn't develop a life around trying to avoid his memories, which usually involves help like drugs, alcohol or abuse of some kind. The trick - and the reason Reich was such a fantastic genius - is that if this is done wrongly, it can greatly further harm and already harmed person. But if techniques are found which enable physical and emotional connections to these energies (rather than being stuck in analysis), they can be safely channeled, like a hot water tap set at the proper temperature, instread of gushing or exploding out.

Of course, this would result in a deeply stable society, able to shrug off liberal lies and collective pressures, and uphold Constitutional freedoms because the freedoms were wanted by adults, rather than avoided by traumatized adult children.

Can't have that, now can we?