Maybe the very late 1960s.
(The chemical structure of DOPE.)
Orgone - didn’t that come in the Christmas toy science kits back in the 60s?
Maybe the very late 1960s.
(The chemical structure of DOPE.)
I read his books while in college. Never gathered that he was a Marxist, and he broke with Freud, who was wrong about most things. He said the Marxists and Facists, who were supposed to be antagonistic, met up and merged in ideological specturm.
His books are fascinating, mostly.
I really liked Ellsworth’s Baker’s book, Man in the Trap.
I was reading about “buried emotions” causing aches and pains and conditions the other night and thought, yes, that is Reich, but mainsteam now.
Reich maintained that tension caused muscles to tighten and resulted in blockage of energy flows through the body with debilitating effects, and the relaxing of the tension has to be done slowly and cautiously in a patient.