Summer Conference at the Wilhelm Reich Museum July 8-12 2019, Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine WILHELM REICH’S WORK DEMOCRACY Between the years 1938 and 1945, Wilhelm Reich wrote six important texts on work democracy: 1939: The Natural Organization of Work in Work Democracy 1941: Further Problems of Work Democracy 1942: "The Biological Miscalculation in the Human Struggle […]

8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration. 9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome and introductory remarks by Dr. Alexander Bingham (Moderator). 9:15 am – 9:30 am Wilhelm Reich: A Time line Dr. Harry Lewis and Dr. Philip W. Bennett 9:30 am – 10:15 am From Libido to Orgone. Stephan Simonian M.D. 10:15 am – 10:30 am […]

The followings are the transcription of the speech given on November 17, 2018 by Dr. Stephan Simonian at an Orgonomy conference in Glendale, CA. "Evolution of psychiatric orgone therapy from psychoanalysis and its medical, psychiatric and social consequences." By: Stephan Simonian M.D. Thank you all for coming. The part that is now on my shoulder […]

8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration. Coffee and light breakfast. 9:00 am – 9:30 am Welcome and introductory remarks by Conny Huthsteiner, M.D. 9:30 am – 9:45 am Introductory movie, "Man’s Right to Know" produced by Wilhelm Reich Museum. 9:45 am – 10:45 am Stephan Simonian M.D. "Evolution of psychiatric orgone therapy from psychoanalysis and […]

  On Monday, August 6, 2018, members of the Institute of Orgonomic Science received the sad news that Dr. Herskowitz had passed away that morning. "He gave so much and brightened so many lives,". After this news, Dr. Harry Lewis, a member of the IOS, wrote the following:     Dr. Morton Herskowitz died, it […]

Morton Herskowitz 100 On May 26, 2018 we celebrated Dr. Herskowitz’s 100th birthday. The celebration was held at his daughter, Robin’s home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. A few weeks before to his 100th birthday Dr. Herskowitz officially stopped his practice of psychiatry and psychiatric orgone therapy and announced his retirement. Family members, friends, students, […]

The Psychiatric, Medical, and Social Consequences Orgone therapy originated from Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis and evolved into the body of knowledge that Freud himself no longer recognized as his own. Reich described the evolution of this body of knowledge in his book, Function of Orgasm. This book provides a synopsis of the development of Orgonomy […]

On the importance of orgonomy I am a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychiatric Orgone therapist practicing in Glendale, CA. During my psychiatric residency, I accidently stumbled upon one of Wilhelm Reich’s books called “Reich speaks of Freud”. After reading this book as a young psychiatry resident, I developed a profound interest in Reich’s theories and therapy […]

Dr. Karl Fossum, psychiatrist and longtime member of IOS, passed away in February, 2017. He was a good-natured man with an exultant smile and a wisdom that commanded respect. With the exception of this last year, Dr. Fossum regularly participated in IOS meetings, which were held in Dr. Morton Herskowitz’s house in Philadelphia. I enjoyed […]

In several of his writings, Wilhelm Reich mentions the name of Dr.Victor Tausk, referring to him as a brilliant psychiatrist with deep insight into psychiatric illnesses and one of the few, active psychiatrists in the psychoanalytic society of his time. Victor Tausk Reich specifies that Tausk’s (1919) paper, “The Origin of the Influencing Machine in […]

On April 3rd 1952, Dr. Wilhelm Reich recorded about 10 minutes of speech in the student’s laboratory at the Orgonon in Maine. This speech followed a period of an experiment that Reich called the “Oranur” experiment. Dr. Reich reported the process of this experiment and the conclusions that were derived as a result. This experiment […]

Orgonomy grew in the womb of psychoanalysis. Dr. Reich considered his work as an extension of Freud’s libido theory. Freud proposed three major psychoanalytic theories: Libido theory (the theory of psychosexual energy). Topographic theory (the theory of the conscious and the unconscious). Structural theory (the theory of the id, ego, and superego). Freud’s students one […]