WILHELM REICH AND ORGONE ENERGY IN ACTION   May 24-25, 2025 8:30am   16706 Knollwood, Dr, Granada Hills, CA 91344   Saturday, May 24 8:30 – 9:00 Registration Coffee, Tea and Pastry   9:00 – 9:30 Conny Huthsteiner, MD. Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:30 – 10:15 Stephan Simonian, MD. The Theory of Orgone Therapy […]

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What follows is an edited version of a lecture, held on June 30, 2023, for the lecture series “Psychological Anthropology: Militarism and War” at the University of Cologne. The following English text is based on a translation done by DeepL Translate, as corrected and revised by Stephen A. Cooper. For the original German, see: https://andreas-peglau-psychoanalyse.de/sind-wir-geborene-krieger-zu-psychosozialen-voraussetzungen-von-friedfertigkeit-und-destruktivitaet/ […]

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Wilhelm Reich and Revolution In the book of Function of Orgasm, in relation to changes that happened after World War I, Dr. Reich says the following: After World War I, which had destroyed many compulsive authoritarian institutions, the European democracies wanted “to lead people to freedom”. But this freedom striving European world committed a major […]

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Contribution to the conference: Wilhelm Reich and the Science of Life Energy: "Orgonomy" November 9, 2019 On the 12th of December 1929 Wilhelm Reich gave a lecture to the inner circle of the Vienna psychoanalytic association on the prevention of neurosis. "I gave my talk on the prophylaxis of neuroses to Freud’s inner circle on […]

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Editor’s Note: I met Andreas Peglau quite by accident at the Reich exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Vienna in 2007. With excitement he showed me a page from Bertholt Brecht’s personal copy of Reich’s “Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis” with Brecht’s marginal notes. We chatted, swapped email addresses, and thus began an on-going relationship. We […]

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Wilhelm Reich had personal experience with the American prison system when he was incarcerated at Ellis Island, New York, in 1941 – 1942; in Danbury, Connecticut, for twelve days in 1957; and finally in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1957. Upon release from his detention as a suspected “enemy alien” at Ellis Island from […]

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“Let There be Peace on Earth” The atrocities that we are witnessing today–the destruction of cities, mass murders, people fleeing war-torn countries for unknown destinations–have recurred throughout history and are not much different from the atrocities that Reich described during both World Wars. Reich explained that this violence and destruction was a consequence of denying […]

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Presented at the Institute for Orgonomic Science Conference, entitled: “Science, Love and Society: an Introduction to Orgonomy, the Work of Wilhelm Reich” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 11, 2015 I’ve been studying Wilhelm Reich’s social and political thought for the last ten years. Here is some of what I’ve learned. Wilhelm Reich was a […]

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After the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in which several young school children and their teachers were killed, I wrote about psychological illness that may cause this type of violent and unpredictable behavior in my article, Sandy Hook elementary School tragedy. In response, a reader recently sent a comment, questioning the authenticity of this story […]

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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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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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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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