01 May 2013
On Monday, April 15, 2013, on a beautiful spring day when the Boston Marathon is traditionally held, two bombs exploded at the finish line, killing 3 people and injuring an estimated 260 spectators. Among the deceased were an 8 year old boy, Martin Richard, who was cheering his father as he approached the finish line; [...]
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27 March 2013
Editor’s Note In many of his writings, Dr. William Reich suggests that Malinowski’s anthropological and sociological studies affirm Reich’s psychological and social theories. For example, in The Function of Orgasm, Reich says: Malinowski’s principle work,The Sexual Life of Savages, appeared in 1929. This book contained a profusion of material which made it quite clear that [...]
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20 February 2013
Based on a talk given on April 28th, 2012 at the conference entitled Somatic Psychology: Its Origins and Development. Daniel Schiff, PhD I want to start off by just giving you a sense of where the idea of this particular workshop or seminar came about as many of you, as I have just learned, have [...]
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29 January 2013
On January 26, 2011, we published an article in this journal entitled “Our Teenage Suicide Bombers.” In that article, we contended that teenagers in other parts of the world who commit suicide bombings were raised in traumatic environments that damaged the teens’ normal psychological growth. We contended that these young suicide bombers were already exploding [...]
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13 November 2012
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is a widely-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. It is one of the most influential and frequently cited phrases in the English Language. This phrase is “meant to exemplify the ‘unalienable rights’ with which all human beings are endowed by their creator and for the [...]
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02 July 2012
In his book The Function of the Orgasm, written in 1940, Wilhelm Reich addresses the concept of Fascist Irrationalism with the following: “In our sexual education, we are not faced with the alternative of sexual activity versus abstinence, but with alternative of natural and healthy sexuality versus perverse and neurotic sexuality.” Healthy sexuality is reflection [...]
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24 May 2012
For a period of about ten days, our readers may have noticed that this website was not online. Any attempt to load the homepage and its articles led to nothing but an empty space and flashing announcement at the top of page, stating, “Hacked by MSA Baba Hacker.” After initial disbelief and shock, we soon [...]
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30 January 2012
A non-fiction title about sexual politics called Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America was published last year. Wilhelm Reich’s life and his theories are a prominent part of this book. Author, Christopher Turner is a writer for the Guardian newspaper. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book. Christopher Turner Turner [...]
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16 November 2011
The following is a transcription of a lecture which was given by Dr. Philip Bennett on April 30, 2011. “Video – From Psychoanalysis to Vegetotherapy (Part 1 & 2)” I first got interested in Wilhelm Reich in 1962 when I read The Function of the Orgasm, and in 1963 I started therapy with someone trained [...]
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12 October 2011
Reader Lloyd Bagwell has sent an astute comment in response to an article, called “Sublimation According to Anna Freud," we published earlier: I want to ask a serious question. Why is modern orgonomy seemingly so incapable of making a social stand against the repression of natural sexuality? I don’t understand what prevents anyone writing anything [...]
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29 August 2011
By Jean Rosenthal Harris. In 1950, I was twenty three years old and pregnant with my first child. My husband Ed and I were living in a cold water flat on East 41st St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan. The United Nations building was under construction just a few blocks away. We learned from Ed’s [...]
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14 August 2011
One part of Reich Speaks of Freud is a transcript of an interview between Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Dr. Kurt Robert Eissler. Dr Reich says: Will our children, in a hundred years, when they are five or six years old, be able to live their natural lives as nature or God ordains it? Or will they sublimate according [...]
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Added on 17 April 2012
The Boston Marathon Bombing: An Orgonomic Analysis
Malinowski Revisited and Reich’s Children of the Future
“Contemporary somatic psychology – an overview of the field”
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In Pursuit of Happiness
Contraception, Wilhelm Reich, Ms. Sandra Fluke and Rush Limbaugh.
Cyber Attack on JPOT
Children of the future
A Tour Through Adventures in the Orgasmatron
From Psychoanalysis to Vegetotherapy
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The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.