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  1. Reich, Wilhelm Reichnoun

    Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957)

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    Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who was known for his controversial theories on human sexuality, politics, and energy. He was a significant figure in the early psychoanalytic movement, being one of Sigmund Freud's most prominent students. Reich developed several revolutionary concepts and theories such as "orgone" energy and "character analysis". However, his ideas were often contentious and rejected by the scientific community. His work has influenced a wide range of fields, including psychology, sociology, political theory, and even popular culture.

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  1. Wilhelm Reich

    Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several influential books and essays, most notably Character Analysis, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, and The Sexual Revolution. His work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, and his idea of muscular armour – the expression of the personality in the way the body moves – shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Fritz Perls's Gestalt therapy, Alexander Lowen's bioenergetic analysis, and Arthur Janov's primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police. After graduating in medicine from the University of Vienna in 1922, Reich studied neuropsychiatry under Julius Wagner-Jauregg and became deputy director of the Vienna Ambulatorium, Freud's psychoanalytic outpatient clinic. Described by Elizabeth Danto as a large man with a cantankerous style who managed to look scruffy and elegant at the same time, he tried to reconcile psychoanalysis with Marxism, arguing that neurosis is rooted in physical, sexual and socio-economic conditions, and in particular in a lack of what he called "orgastic potency." He visited patients in their homes to see how they lived, and took to the streets in a mobile clinic, promoting adolescent sexuality and the availability of contraceptives, abortion and divorce, a provocative message in Catholic Austria. He said he wanted to "attack the neurosis by its prevention rather than treatment."

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wilhelm Reich in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wilhelm Reich in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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