Article by Stephan Simonian M.D.
Posted on 01 May 2010. Tags: integration, schizophrenia, wilhelm reich
( Excerpts of a lecture given by Dr. Wilhelm Reich on the process of integration in newborns and the schizophrenic.) In 1949, Wilhelm Reich conducted a series of clinical lectures and discussions with physicians in which he formulated the basic principles of orgone therapy and focused on specific problems and possibilities in the practice. Dr. […]
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Posted in Philosophy, Psychiatric Illness
Article by Morton Herskowitz D.O.
Posted on 07 March 2010.
Excerpts from Dr. Herskowitz Lecture in Germany, December 1993 Introduction of German interviewer of Dr. Herskowitz and of orgonomy and psychiatric orgone therapy. Dr. Herskowitz: “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. How did this change come about? I do not know.” These are the opening lines of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s social […]
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Posted in Psychiatric Illness
Article by Morton Herskowitz D.O.
Posted on 06 March 2010. Tags: armoring
Repressed emotions have physical signatures. With anxiety we pull in our chests. Tight necks signal stubbornness. Raised shoulders imply fear. Dulled eyes imply an inability to cope, etc. Wilhelm Reich recognized that these somatic tensions functioned as emotional armoring; they kept repressed emotions at bay. They are the physical representations of character. His therapy, designed […]
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