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Report Of International Orgonomy Conference

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May 30-31, 2026; Naples, Italy

The International Orgonomy Conference convened on May 30 and 31, 2026, in Naples, Italy, coordinated and organized by the Italian Committee: Roberto Maglione, MSc; Claudia Masciello; MD, and Armando Vecchietti, MBioISc. The conference was sponsored by The Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy.

Stephan Simonian, MD, opened the proceedings with a welcome talk and statement:

Good morning, everyone. It is an honor for me to welcome all of you to this International Orgonomy Conference. The last time we gathered for such an event was in 2013 in Rome.
First, let’s all take a moment to thank Mr. Francisco Zito, to whom we are grateful for organizing that significant moment in the field of modern Orgonomy. In many ways, this conference today and many activities in the field of Orgonomy are the direct consequence of the impactful work we gathered to discuss in Rome, 13 years ago.

Picture of 2013’s International Orgonomic Conference.

Thirteen years ago, in a milestone for our field, many clinicians and scientists who were working in the discipline of Orgonomy met with each other; they learned from each other and connected with each other, developing networks that afterwards became very productive. Mr. Roberto Maglione was the moderator in Rome. He managed the conference marvelously; his knowledge and character were very impressive. Since then, he has assisted in several California-based projects, particularly in weather work and cloud busting projects. Last year, to revive the experience of the International Orgonomic Conference in Rome, we organized and held an International Orgonomic Conference in Los Angeles, California. The speakers who participated and shared their experiences broadcasted their work worldwide and were published in the Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy, as well as on YouTube and Facebook.

01 STEPHAN SIMONIAN

Now we are delighted to present this International Orgonomic Conference, in the beautiful city of Naples. Our aim and intention are to continue these conferences on a yearly basis. It is our opinion that such conferences have crucial importance for the survival, growth and well-being of the human race. It is our opinion and hope that by introducing Dr. Wilhelm Reich and the Knowledge of Orgonomy, one day the people on our planet will be able to live by Orgonomic Principles: Love, knowledge, and work, that are the wellsprings of life. Therefore, they also should govern it.

Knowledge of Orgonomy provides guidelines and principals upon which children will grow emotionally and physically healthy and will become healthy adults. Emotionally healthy adults will make healthy societies, which is the best (and only) guarantee to prevent social tragedies such as war, genocide, and killing of humans at the hands of other humans. Orgonomic principles demand changes in social institutions. Therefore, Orgonomy transcends from the realm of individual treatment and mental hygiene into a broader sociology. In turn, the sociological branch of Orgonomy develops based on this necessity.

In the core of orgonomic principles is discovery of life energy or Orgone energy. Comprehension of the laws that govern this energy constitutes a biophysical branch of Orgonomy. The knowledge of Orgonomy encompasses a wide range of different fields affecting human existence. Dr. Victor Sobey, one of Reich’s students, quoted Reich as stating that too much was discovered at once and people could not handle it. However, it is our opinion that we do have an obligation to introduce Orgonomic theories and principles to the people, and to that end, Orgonomic conferences like this one have a crucial importance.

As Dr. Wilhelm Reich stated at the end of the historic 1945 Orgonomic Conference in Orgonon, we too believe that each of you who are attending now will be central to return and promote Orgonomy within your own circles. I also would like to thank all of you who are attending this conference and those who are watching online. I would like to thank our speakers who have traveled long distances and made themselves available to participate. I would specifically like to thank our Italian Committee, Roberto Maglione, Claudia Masciello, and Armando Richetti, who’ve worked ceaselessly behind the scenes to make this event happen. Finally, I also would like to acknowledge that this conference is sponsored by the Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy, the online platform that publishes articles and speeches to both introduce Orgonomy for some and promote Orgonomy for all.

Thank you all again for coming to this conference.

Next, Roberto Maglione, MSc, gave a speech. Its translation from Italian appears here:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is an honor for me to open the proceedings of this International Conference of Orgonomy, which will take place today and tomorrow here in Naples. Before formally beginning the conference, I would like to offer a few reflections on the historical and scientific context in which the topics to be discussed are situated.

The last few decades have been characterized by continuous and extraordinary technological development, which has led us to a view of science and technology very different from the one to which our society had become accustomed, for example, in the period following the Second World War. These have been decades during which science and technology have progressed at a pace never before witnessed. We have seen the arrival of the first calculators, the first mobile phones, the first personal computers, the worldwide Internet network, new forms of energy production, and increasingly sophisticated and rapid systems for information processing, management, and optimization – developments that would have been unimaginable even twenty years ago (1). Consequently, our society, particularly Western society, has benefited from the opportunities offered by scientific progress and technological change, evolving alongside them.

Today, we are confronting new technological challenges that are still in their infancy, such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, brain–machine interfaces, plasma-based energy production and work systems, and space exploration. We are moving ever faster in what appears to be an unstoppable race.

Yet this progress has also had another consequence, less visible but equally important: the very way research is conducted has changed. As Pacchioni, Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, has insightfully described, scientific and technological progress, once largely the domain of public institutions, has gradually become the prerogative of large and powerful private organizations, particularly the Big Tech companies. Research has been transformed from an activity carried out with limited resources and driven mainly by curiosity and passion into a rigorous business enterprise involving investments and financial returns.

At the same time, the dissemination and sharing of scientific and technological achievements – hallmarks of public research and guarantees of open scientific development – have steadily declined. New technologies and discoveries have increasingly become secrets guarded within the confines of powerful private corporations, whose dissemination is ever more protected, controlled, and at times opaque(2). Science has become an increasingly efficient system, but also an increasingly closed one.

Moreover, the communication of scientific discoveries has become less reliable over time. An article published in Nature in 2016, reporting the results of a survey conducted among 1,576 researchers, revealed that 70% had failed to reproduce research conducted by other scientists, while 50% had failed to reproduce their own findings. The survey covered fields ranging from chemistry and biology to physics and medicine(3).

One might therefore conclude that, beyond the secrecy and commercialization of new knowledge, our evolution is characterized by an increasingly clear, important, and radical direction, a trajectory that appears not to allow for reversals or changes of course. The present era may indeed be one of the most important and decisive periods in the development of our scientific and technological future – in other words, decisive for our evolution as living beings.

But is this really the case?

If we look to history, we discover that at least once – and perhaps more than once – science found itself at a crucial crossroads whose choices profoundly shaped scientific and technological development over the last 150 years. I am referring to the events that took place during the second half of the nineteenth century, when important and fundamental decisions concerning the future of science were made.

Everything began in the years following 1860, when the French chemist Louis Pasteur presented a lengthy dissertation arguing that fermentation was caused by the presence of micro-organisms. Supported by the work of the German researcher Robert Koch, and not without intense intellectual and scientific debate, this view gave rise to germ theory, which completely transformed previous conceptions of infectious disease and inaugurated the modern disciplines of bacteriology and microbiology(4).

A second major change followed the experiment conducted in 1887 by Michelson and Morley(5), designed to investigate the relative motion between the Earth and the aether – the so-called ether drift. At that time, aether was regarded as a fixed reference frame for the motion of all celestial bodies. The negative results of the experiment led many scientists to question the existence of aether in the universe, to the extent that Einstein proposed in 1905, through his theories of special and general relativity, that aether be abandoned altogether, since it was no longer necessary within his theoretical framework(6).

A final major change occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century when Freud developed the concept of libido as the psychic energy underlying sexual impulses. This concept later became part of a broader theory that Freud developed and published in 1920 as the death instinct(7). The concept of the death instinct, which opposed the life instinct based on growth and survival, quickly established itself as a central element in the understanding of psychopathology and mental disorders.

It is clear that, during the few decades spanning the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, a real scientific revolution took place – a profound transformation that left no room for an omnipresent fluid permeating the Cosmos and Nature, namely the aether. This transformation directed technological development along a specific path, a path that has led us directly to the reality we see and experience today.

The figure illustrates the historical trajectory of the aether in philosophy and science throughout the centuries up to the present day. Officially, this trajectory was interrupted in 1905 with the acceptance of Einstein’s theoretical work. Reich’s orgone energy can be identified with the luminiferous ether and with all those bio-energetic manifestations described throughout history, beginning with the Chi of ancient Chinese philosophy and extending, through the Atomos of Leucippus and Democritus and the Kalam of the medieval Islamic atomists, to the more recent concepts proposed by Todeschini and Galaev.

It is within this context that Reich’s work may be situated.

Furthermore, the research methodology employed by Reich shares important similarities with that developed by the first scientists of the Restoration period in seventeenth-century England. This was a time of intense political and cultural ferment, during which groups with differing visions etwenty years agomerged but shared a common goal: the reform of knowledge. One such effort was promoted by the circle founded by the philanthropist Samuel Hartlib and embodied in his famous utopian vision of the Kingdom of Macaria(8).

Another initiative was undertaken by a group of young middle-class English scientists known as the Virtuosi. Beginning in 1645, they met periodically, first in London and later in Oxford, to discuss the development of a new philosophy of science based upon the principles elaborated by Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum and New Atlantis. These principles were founded upon a new conception of research grounded in empirical evidence and experimental verification.

This group eventually formed the Invisible (Philosophical) College, which sought to reinterpret the aims and precepts of Bacon’s Solomon’s House. Among its members were young scientists who would later become enduring pillars of science, figures still celebrated today, such as Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. Seventeen years later, in 1662, the Royal Society emerged from the Invisible College(9).

Robert Hooke was among the first thinkers of the Scientific Revolution to develop a methodology for investigating natural phenomena that combined sensory perception and intuition – considered essential instruments of inquiry – with the use of instruments and apparatus designed to enhance the investigative power of human perception(10). Such devices served as artificial supports intended to develop a kind of “sixth sense” capable of revealing the hidden causes of natural phenomena. This method departed from the traditional Aristotelian approach, which studied natural phenomena qualitatively through reason and logic alone(11).

Like Hooke, Reich developed a methodology for investigating natural phenomena based upon sensory perception. In a certain sense, both Hooke and Reich remained deeply rooted in natural philosophy. Each sought to understand cause-and-effect relationships through the use of secondary supports such as mechanical instruments. This approach was known at the time as Mechanical or Experimental Natural Philosophy(12).

From Newton onward, however, scientific inquiry increasingly concentrated on expressing the nature of effects through precise mathematical formulations, while the investigation of causes was largely relegated to metaphysics(13). Consequently, two of the most fundamental functions of Nature upon which modern science is based – the force of attraction or gravity, and the relationship between space and time – came to be studied and modeled primarily by mathematicians such as Newton and Einstein. In the course of this development, an essential component of scientific research was gradually lost: the sensory perception of the investigator. Mathematical equations thus became the sole representatives of important natural functions, reducing them to sterile fluctuating fields within an aetherless cosmic vacuum.

Nevertheless, although Reich’s method of research bears resemblance to the mechanical and experimental philosophy of nature associated with Hooke, it may also be classified as a corpuscular philosophy of nature, according to which all phenomena can be explained through the interactions of invisible and imperceptible aetheric particles – or orgone energy particles, as Reich himself called them(14).

A similar conception developed alongside mechanical and experimental natural philosophy during the Scientific Revolution. Descartes was the first to formulate this approach, describing matter as composed of atoms (grosser atoms), characterized by motion, shape, size, order, and arrangement. Yet the concept of the atom remained rather confused at the time and could also refer to an aetheric substance, itself corporeal but much lighter and subtler, which was likewise considered by some to be the fundamental corpuscle or building block of material bodies(15).

Many scientists of that era and subsequent periods embraced this second hypothesis and conceived aetheric substance as the true matter, referring to its constituents as subtle particles or subtle atoms. Most believed these particles possessed creative and transformative properties and constituted the fundamental basis of matter itself – properties that could not be attributed to the atom as conceived by Descartes(16).

Henry Power, a seventeenth-century English physician and natural philosopher, argued that aetheric substance was the principal agent in natural processes and the primary creative force in Nature. According to Power, it stimulated and maintained such processes as fermentation, mineral aggregation, growth and maturation in plants, and life, sensation, and motion in animals. Subtle particles were believed capable of transforming themselves into atoms of a grosser nature. Descartes, by contrast, believed in inert matter(17).

This intellectual tradition included many distinguished scientists from both the Scientific Revolution and the Victorian era(18), including Power, Hooke, Euler, Le Sage, Kelvin, Maxwell, Mendeleev, Lodge, and Thomson, among others. It should not be confused with the corpuscular theory of Gassendi, Boyle, and Newton, which remained fundamentally Cartesian in orientation(19).

From this perspective, Reich’s scientific work may be intimately connected with that of some of the greatest scientists of the past, before science became predominantly mechanistic.

Like Reich, Hooke sought what he called Perpetual and Universal Knowledge, which was believed to underlie all mechanical and artificial operations. It was thought that natural processes could be understood by analogy with artificial operations performed by mechanical instruments, since such instruments obey and reveal the laws of Nature(20). Reich referred to this principle as the CFP, or Common Functioning Principle.

I would also like to add that the new mechanical philosophy of nature that developed during the Scientific Revolution originated from the earlier magical philosophy of nature characteristic of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. For a considerable time, the two traditions coexisted and influenced one another until mechanistic science eventually became dominant and excluded the former altogether.

An important point is that magical philosophy was not concerned with identifying the precise causal chain or mechanism through which objects interacted. What mattered was the ability to reproduce the same effects. The causes themselves were not considered essential. Mechanical philosophy appropriated many methods and assumptions from magical philosophy, although elements such as divination, the religious and spiritual dimensions of alchemy, numerology, and other related beliefs were gradually excluded and eventually relegated to the realm of entertainment, superstition, or fantasy. Even alchemy itself, despite its magical origins, was ultimately replaced by chemistry and was never seriously reconsidered(21).

Newton has been described by some authors as the last of the magicians, standing with one foot in the medieval world and the other on the path toward modern mechanistic science(22). His deep interest in alchemy and magical natural philosophy is well known. Hooke might reasonably be considered the penultimate magician.

Reich, because of his relentless efforts to rediscover the hidden laws and mechanisms of Nature, cannot be considered a magician, not least because of the historical period in which he lived. Nevertheless, his vision of research bears a striking resemblance to that of the early scientists of the Royal Society, of whom Hooke was one of the foremost representatives(23).

Indeed, Reich’s work may exhibit many features characteristic of the transition from magical natural philosophy to mechanical and experimental philosophy, combining methods and assumptions inherited from the earlier tradition. In 1953, Reich remarked to McCullough, one of his most important collaborators of that period:


"Alchemists were searching for life. Killed by chemists."
(24)

Perhaps this observation also helps explain why Reich was never fully understood by the science of his own time. That science had lost something important along the way – something it may never have noticed was missing, having never looked back or retraced its steps.

In organizing this conference, we have sought to create a program that is not merely commemorative, but one that includes both familiar and less explored aspects of Reich’s work. The program has been divided into four sessions covering orgone therapy, orgone energy in society and the arts, orgone medicine, and orgone biophysics.

Some of the presentations we will hear represent genuine premieres, addressing topics that have not been publicly explored since Reich’s death.

Before concluding and opening the conference proceedings, I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Simonian, without whose contribution this event would never have been possible. I would also like to thank my colleagues Dr. Masciello and Dr. Vecchietti, with whom I have shared ideas, discussions, and planning throughout the past year in our effort to create an event worthy of Reich’s genius.

We sincerely hope that we have succeeded.

Thank you.

References

  1. Today, a high-performance computing center can readily achieve 600 petaflops, corresponding to 600 million billion (peta = 10¹⁵) complex mathematical operations per second.
  2. Pacchioni G, Scienza Chiara, Scienza Oscura. Ricerca Pura, Ricerca Militare, Big Tech, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2025.
  3. Baker M, Is There a Reproducibility Crisis?, Nature, Vol 533, May 26, 2016, pages 452-454; see also Cassone A, D’Angelo P, I Dubbi della Scienza. La Ricerca Scientifica tra Business e Malafede, Diarkos Editor, 2025.
  4. Mann CC, Research in Reverse, Scientific American, September 2025.
  5. Michelson AA, Morley EW, On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether, American Journal of Science, 1887.
  6. The definition of an empty space, that is, a space devoid of aether, therefore implied that objects could be located only in relation to one another. This fundamentally altered previous conceptions of gravity and transformed space and time into a single curvature generated by mass and energy (Mann CC, Ibid, 2025).
  7. Freud S, Jenseits des Lustprinzips, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Vienna, 1922 (English edition: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, International Psycho-Analytical Press, Vienna, 1922).
  8. Matei O, Macaria, The Hartlib Circle, and Husbanding Creation, Society and Politics, Vol. 7, N° 2 (14), November 2013; see also Matei O, Macaria, The Hartlib Circle, and Husbanding Creation, Society and Politics, Vol. 7, N° 2 (14), November 2013; and Gaddo I. “The Corner Stone of the Worlds Happinesse”: Samuel Hartlib e il Famoso Regno di Macaria (1641), In Gaddo I, Mongin G (Eds), Utopia e Religione. Figure, Temi, Percorsi, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria, Italy, 2021. Hartlib and his circle strongly advocated a reform of knowledge aimed at fostering the development of science and technology in a way that would simultaneously improve the social and spiritual condition of humankind. They also sought new and effective means of disseminating knowledge to the widest possible audience, while preventing its monopolization.
  9. Stimson D, Comenius and The Invisible College, Isis, Vol. 23, N° 2, September 1935, pages 373-388.
  10. Anstey PR, Alberto Vanzo A, Early Modern Experimental Philosophy, in Sytsma J e Buckwalter W, A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Blackwell, 2016, pages 87-102; see also Chapman A, England’s Leonardo: Robert Hooke (1635-1703) and the Art of Experiment in Restoration England, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Vol. 67, 1996, pages 239-275.
  11. Henry J, Robert Hooke, The Incongruous Mechanist, in Hunter M (Editor), Robert Hooke: New Studies, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1989.
  12. Webster C, Henry Power’s Experimental Philosophy, Ambix 14 (1967), pages 150-178. See also Shapiro A, Newton’s Experimental Philosophy, Early Science and Medicine, Vol. 9, No. 3, Newtonianism: Mathematical and ‘Experimental’ (2004), pages 185-217.
  13. Henry J, Robert Hooke, The Incongruous Mechanist, in Hunter M (Editor), Robert Hooke: New Studies, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1989.
  14. Henry J, Ibid, 1989, pages 167-168. See also Whittaker ET, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, Dover Publications, 2017.
  15. Matei O, Atoms and Subtle Matter: Henry Power’s Observations on Plants in Experimental Philosophy, Notes and Records, 6 November, 2024, page 8. Available at http://royalsocietypublishing.org.
  16. Matei O, Ibid, 2024
  17. Matei O, Ibid, 2024, pages 9-10.
  18. The Scientific Revolution took place during the period 1543–1687, the Enlightenment during the eighteenth century, and the Victorian era during the period 1837–1901. To these may be added the Restoration period, which spanned the years 1660–1688.
  19. The atom conceived by Leucippus and Democritus bears no resemblance to the atom of the Scientific Revolution, as it constitutes the truly indivisible component of matter and may be identified with the aetheric particle.
  20. Henry J, Robert Hooke, The Incongruous Mechanist, in Hunter M (Editor), Robert Hooke: New Studies, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1989, pages 170 and 175.
  21. Such a course may nevertheless be considered typical of the scientists of that era, whose quest to uncover the laws of Nature often entailed a transition from an earlier, magical view of Nature to a later, scientific one.
  22. Keynes JM, Newton, the Man, in Essays in Biography, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010; see also Kearney H, Science and Change, 1500-1700,‎ McGraw-Hill, January 01, 1971.
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Notes on the presentations done at the Naples 2026 – International Conference of Orgonomy

Royal Hotel, Naples, May 30-31, 2026

Stephan Simonian, MD, editor of JPOT and sponsor of the event, welcomed the audience by recalling the Orgonomy Conference held in Rome, Italy, in 2013, and the last one held in Los Angeles, in 2025, emphasizing the continuity of the diffusion of new researches based on Reich’s work over the years.
Roberto Maglione, MSc, did the opening talk by making a short overview of the present status of the worldwide scientific research. He found Reich’s orgone energy can be identified with the bio-energies of the past and specifically with the luminiferous ether of the Victorian age. He made also a parallelism between the research methodologies in the 17th century of the first scientists of the Invisible College, then become the Royal Society, and in particular of Robert Hooke, and that of Reich’s, noting a very close similarity. The research methodology of the Invisible College diverged more and more from its original approach in the following centuries leading science to follow a mechanistic-mystical path.
Conference consisted of 20 communications organized in four sessions: 1) Orgone Therapy; 2) Orgone in Society and the Arts; 3) Orgone Medicine; and 4) Orgone Biophysics.

02 ROBERTO MAGLIONE

Orgone Therapy session was moderated by Leon Southgate, MSc. First speaker was Stephan Simonian, MD. In his talk, Simonian noted that Orgonomy is the only discipline that is able to describe scientific principles upon which the normal human psyche functions. A living organism is considered healthy when is able to set the pulsatory biological energy from the centre towards the periphery, and has the capacity of flow of this energy unimpeded and capable of fully discharging the surplus. Basically, he emphasised, the orgastic function and principles are the fundamentals of life. Simonian went on to describe how Reich discovered the human armouring that interferes with the free flow of organism bio-energy and is the basis for the formation of physical (biopathies) and psychological illnesses (neuroses).
Alberto Foglia’s talk was focused on the specific features of the functional thinking which represents within psychotherapy a new and radically different way of understanding and treating the relationship between body and mind. It allows for a more integrated and coherent understanding of numerous psychic, social, biological, and physical phenomena. He presented a clinical case of a patient suffering from dyspareunia, characterized by a chronic and painful contraction of the pelvic floor and the vaginal walls. The case was resolved after approximately 300 therapeutic sessions, when the symptoms completely disappeared. Foglia made a comparison between the medical-somatic and psychological-behavioral approaches currently in use, with the orgonomic-functional approach.
Stephan Simonian, MD, read on the behalf of Amir Mohseni, PhD, unable to attend in person, a talk focused on case histories taken from his psychiatric practice in Iran. He presented three clinical cases of a man suffering claustrophobia; of a young female with depression and anxiety; and a man with severe procrastination and inability to concentrate. In all the above cases conventional treatments provided no benefits and gave no results. By using Reich’s approach, he was able to find and dissolve the armour that prevented the bio-energy flow in specific parts of the organism with a parallel disappearance of the symptoms.
Claudia Mascello, MD, discussed the results of her clinical research and experimentation with an instrument, called Bluesound, developed on the basis that in vegetotherapy the fundamental emotion that modulates and shapes individual behaviour is fear, and mostly primal fear of not being able to exist thus generating a psychotic core in the organism. The instrument can administer to the patient pulsating blue light at a frequency correlated to the average resting heart rate (60-70 beats per minute) and a sound frequency that mimics theta brainwaves (REM phase) in the 4-7 Hz range. Masciello reported on four clinical cases in which a remodulation of brain activity with a reduction in sympathetic overactivation, and a concomitant modification of the individual’s terrain, led to a gradual lowering of the symptoms and a parallel reduction of the pharmacological treatments till the total disappearance of symptoms.
Patricia Estrada, LP, discussed the problem of women infertility outlining how conventional treatments are highly aggressive and generate relational and functional consequences for the women and men who undergo them. She reported on a clinical case of severe woman infertility that was resolved with orgone therapy associated to homeopathic treatments. However, notwithstanding the woman body’s pulsation was restored, the person couldn’t tolerate the new higher energy level and functioning and more work was required to assist her. Estrada emphasised that very few qualitative studies have been published on Orgontherapy. The lack of a significant body of empirical research on Orgontherapy Clinical cases and outcomes reveals a notable gap in the possibility to do comparative studies.
Orgone in Society and the Arts session was moderated by Roberto Maglione, MSc. First speaker was Philip Bennett, PhD, who had two talks. First talk was focused on the history of Orgonomy and Reich. Bennett examined the evolution of Reich’s thought from his membership within the Communist Party till to his repudiation of all forms of politics, and how Reich later developed a form of anarchism, which he called work democracy. Reich thought a continued prevention of human misery was necessary before it produces illness cand auses the neuroses.
In his second talk Philip Bennett focused on the conception of work democracy Reich developed when he was in Oslo (1938). This concept was elaborated in two pamphlets The Natural Organization of Work in Work-Democracy (1939) and Further Problems of Work Democracy (1941). Bennett explained some of the key features, and the form of work democracy Reich further developed in his later writings.
Gianfranco Tomei, MD, focused his talk on the analysis of sexual repression conditions young people find themselves today. He discussed how this form of sexual malaise, evidenced by the global phenomenon of Incels, Involuntary Celibates, makes angry and suffering men develop the character armor Reich largely predicted. The hatred toward women that Incels develop goes hand in hand with female emancipation and with that of loss of the father. Tomei made also a parallel with the work of Pasolini who, in the cultural genocide of popular cultures brought about by neo-capitalism, identified the loss of a genuine popular sexuality, replaced by docile bodies manipulable for consumption, precisely what Reich’s vision, thirty years earlier, had already anticipated and foreshadowed.
Ranieri Wanderlingh started his talk with a commemoration of Nicola Glielmi, an Italian psychotherapist, who was the first to introduce vegeto-therapy treatments in public hospitals in Italy in the 1990s. He went on to show drawings and images developed by Reich on the Orgonome, the movement of orgone energy in the atmosphere as well as in living organisms, making a parallelism with the orgone energy movement in art. He discussed how the Orgonome can be found in his own work on paintings and sculptures, as well as in some painters and in certain historical artistic movements.
Orgone Medicine session was moderated by Claudia Masciello, MD. First speaker was Tina Lindemann, MD. She started her talk by discussing the indications/contraindications of the use of the orgone accumulator in the treatment of diseases. She went on to discuss the kind of energetic functioning of a human organism. This dynamic can be classified as type 1, 2, and 3, according to the dynamics of the bio-energy inside the organism. Lindemann concluded her talk reporting on a cohort of 15 cases of young women with PAP IIID, PAP IV, and HPV infections. Their conditions improved after systematic exposure to orgone fields inside ORACs.
Jorgos Kavouras, MD, showed in his communication how the knowledge about orgone energy, its functions and applications are a substantial part of Integrative Medicine (IM), a term coined to combine the therapy with ORAC, Medical Dorbuster and Psychiatric Orgone-therapy with the functional and energetic understanding of health and disease as developed by Reich. He went on to discuss the role of the Medical Dorbuster in the treatment of tumors. Some case histories were also reported. Chronic tumor fatigue and prostate cancer bone-metastasis improved after the use of orgone treatments.
Francesco D’Ingiullo’s talk focused on a synthesis between Reich’s orgonomy and the ancient foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Central hypothesis was orgone energy can be equated with the Eastern concept of Qi, allowing a practical integration in which the use of orgone accumulators and projectors enhances the effectiveness of treatments on channels and acupuncture points. Cardiac arrhythmia and hypertension, thyroid’s problems, joint problems, respiratory problems, and renal insufficiency all benefit from the use of the orgone irradiation to the TCM channels showing how the bio-energetic contribution promoted significant stabilization of the clinical picture, even in patients affected by complex conditions or refractory to conventional therapeutic protocols. Clinical cases related to autoimmune and degenerative pathologies (multisystem disorders, Sjogren syndrome, high-grade rotator cuff tear, spinal lipoma and sciatic nerve pain, and thyroiditis) were presented. In all cases improvements were recorded.
Jorgos Kavouras‘s second talk was focused on the discussion whether a functional and energetic understanding of health and disease, as developed by Reich, can be extended to other natural systems and may offer a meaningful perspective for understanding the deeper cause of the current global crisis. In his speech he tried to find possible functional relationships within natural systems, with particular emphasis on the principles underlying Reich’s cloudbuster.
Armando Vecchietti, MBiol, did a talk focused on the reinterpretation of the cancer process from an orgonomic perspective. Cancer can be described not as a disease originating directly from the cancer cell, but as the consequence of a progressive energetic depletion that leads cells to profound structural and functional changes. He went on to describe the various steps of the cancer cell formation: Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, C4, and C5. Vecchietti illustrated cancer very early diagnostic tests Reich conceived: the cytological test, the blood test, and the autoclave test. They allow evaluation of the energetic state of the organism before the appearance of conventional clinical signs. He concluded his talk by analyzing the phenomenon of tumor angiogenesis from an energetic point of view, highlighting the role of the charge relationship between blood and tumor mass.
Conny Huthsteiner, MD, discussed the benefit of the use of orgone devices on animals and human beings. She highlighted a case where a poorly dog, close to death, was back to health conditions after being subjected to orgone treatments. The dog lived for two more years. She went on to report on the research and the early results from a study taking place in the US on the use of the orgone funnel in the treatment of dry macular degeneration. The patient obtained extraordinarily results with the disappearing of the macular disease.
Roberto Maglione, MSc, presented the fundamentals and the results of the Oranur experiment Reich carried out in January 1951, as well as how Reich came to the development of the Oranur medicine concept. Based on the results of the Oranur experiment Reich argued mild controlled Oranur fields might be beneficial in the treatment of diseases. Maglione theoretically discussed the use of weak Oranur fields in agriculture as a tool to improve the biological resistance of the cultivations to diseases and to improve quality of the crop and yield.
Orgone Biophysics session was moderated by Armando Vecchietti, MBiol. First speaker was Leon Southgate, MSc, who reported on his results on the ongoing research he is conducting on the relationship between orgone energy and consciousness. He discussed the results he obtained up to now by using dream imagery and physical Oranur methods.
In his second talk, Southgate reported on his finding of a new parameter which is developing during weak Oranur fields: the creation of sound. He compared his work with that within the area known as archeo-acoustics, anomalous sounds produced by stone structures. Evidence of the existence of an Oranur sound was presented, and discussion of its unusual qualities and timings was done.
Luca Piergentili, MSc, examined in his presentation, in a unified form, some electrical and gravitational functions of orgone energy, considered as a primary energy continuum and studied through observable secondary manifestations. Maglione and Piergentili conducted a long-term experiment on an adult subject where a highly statistically significant variation of body resistance, voltage, and temperature when the subject was regularly subjected to orgone sessions was observed. In a second long-term experiment they observed on the same adult subject statistically significant variation of the apparent weight and of body temperature. Piergentili concluded his speech by proposing an organized phenomenology in which thermal, electrical, and gravimetric variations are considered as secondary channels of the same state change of the ORAC-organism-atmosphere system.
Roberto Maglione, MSc, analysed the increase of temperature inside an orgone accumulator and theoretically modelled the phenomenon. He demonstrated heat production inside an orgone accumulator is fully in agreement with the first and second law of thermodynamics provided the orgone particles are not massless, as hypothesized by Reich, but endowed with a tiny mass. Maglione went on by further developing the heat production model by including also the gravitational phenomenon. He tested the latter model with gravimetric experimental data available in the orgonomic literature finding a good agreement. The modelling also showed heat and gravity are secondary functions of the same bio-energy (orgone energy or etheric) substratum.

During the two-day conference, participants representing a spectrum of specialties and interests across the field of Orgonomy were able to meet each other, share their knowledge, and learn from each other. A social dinner was held on Saturday night, May 30th, in the honor of the speakers, providing yet another opportunity to network as well as learn more about each other’s activities in the field of Orgonomy. The organizers of the conference also discussed future plans for subsequent, yearly, and international Orgonomy conferences, plans for which will be announced in the near future.

Conference speeches were delivered in 40-minute increments and were all received very well. Links and the schedule of the presentations are provided here below:

Day 1 Videos:

03 LEON SOUTHGATE

04 STEPHAN SIMONIAN

05 FRANCESCO D’INGIULLO

06 AMIR MOHSENI

07 CLAUDIA MASCIELLO

08 PATICIA ESTRADA

09 PHILIP BENNET

10 GIANFRANCO TOMEI

11 PHILIP W BENNET

12 RANIERI WANDERLINGH

13 TINA LINDEMANN

14 JORGOS KAVOURAS

 

Day 2 Videos:

 

01 FOGLIA

02 JORGOS KAVOURAS

03 A VECHHIETTI

04 CONNY HUTHSTEINER

05 ROBERTO MAGLIONE

06 LEON SOUTHGATE

07 LEON SOUTHGATE

08 LUCA PIERGENTILI

09 ROBERTO MAGLIONE

GRAZIE

INCREDIBLE WORKERS

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2026

8.15 AM – 8.45 AM: Registration & Morning Social

8.45 AM – 9.15 AM: Welcome Session

Welcome: Stephan Simonian, MD, JPOT Editor, USA

Opening Remarks: Roberto Maglione, MSc, Italy

9.15 AM – 2.10 PM: Session 1, Orgone Therapy, Leon Southgate, MSc, Chair

9.15 AM – 9.55 AM: Orgonomy. A Natural Scientific Discipline; not Ashamed of Sexuality

Stephan Simonian, MD, JPOT Editor, USA

9.55 AM – 10.35 AM: The Wonders of Functional Thinking: an Example in Medical Orgone-Therapy

Alberto Foglia, MD, Switzerland

10.35 AM – 10.50 AM: Morning Break

10.50 AM – 11.30 AM:From Introduction to Clinical Practices: Insights and Outcomes with Psychiatric Orgone Therapy

Amir Mohseni, PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

11.30 AM – 12.10 PM: Acting of Level Zero in Caracter-Analytic Vegeto-Therapy: Neurophysiological Implications and Bluesound Protocol

Antonio Angelo Girardi, MD, Claudia Masciello, MD, IFeN, Naples, Italy Speaker: Claudia Masciello, MD, Vegeto and Orgone Therapist

12.10 PM – 1.30 PM: Lunch Break (not included in the “Conference only” rate)

1.30 PM – 2.10 PM: Report of Therapeutic Work in Severe Cases of Female Idiopathic Infertility within the Framework of the Reichian Paradigm

Patricia Estrada, LP, Angeles Guerrero, MD, Mexico

2.10 PM – 5.05 PM: Session 2, Orgone in the Social and Arts, Roberto Maglione, MSc, Chair

2.10 PM – 2.50 PM: From Communism to Work Democracy: a Deep Insight on Wilhelm Reich’s Social and Political Life

Philip W. Bennett, PhD, USA

2.50 PM – 3.30 PM: Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Fight of Youth: From Young Students to Factory’s Young Workers (with Reference to Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Prof. Gianfranco Tomei, MD, Università La Sapienza, Italy

3.30 PM – 3.45 PM: Afternoon Break

3.45 PM – 4.25 PM: Work, not Politics: Reich’s Evolving Understanding of Work Democracy

Philip W. Bennett, PhD, USA

4.25 PM – 5.05 PM: The Shape of Life

Prof. Ranieri Wanderlingh, Ranieri Wanderlingh Studio d’Arte, Messina, Italy

5.05 PM – 6.25 PM: Session 3, Orgone Medicine, Claudia Masciello, MD, Chair

5.05 PM – 5.45 PM: The Practical Application of the ORAC and Orgone Blanket With Medical Patients – Indications/Contraindications and Interactions; and a Short Report about Ongoing ORAC-Research in Vienna, Austria

Tina Lindemann, MD, Orgone Therapist, Chairwoman of the German Wilhelm Reich Gesellschaft e.V., Germany

5.45 PM – 6.25 PM: Orgonomy (and Its Application) Is a Key-Element of the Real Integrative Medicine

Prof. Dr. (med) Jorgos Kavouras, Germany

8.30 PM: SOCIAL DINNER (not included in the “Conference only” rate)

 

SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2026

8.15 AM – 8.45 AM: Registration & Morning Social

8.45 AM – 2.20 AM: Session 3, Orgone Medicine, Claudia Masciello, MD, Chair

8.45 AM – 9.25 AM: Orgone Irradiation in the MTC Channels

Francesco D’Ingiullo, Italy

9.25 AM – 10.05 AM: Orgonomic Applications and Principles Are a Key-Element to Restore Health of Nature

Prof. Dr. (med) Jorgos Kavouras, Germany

10.05 AM – 10.20 AM: Morning Break

10.20 AM – 11.40 AM: Cancer From an Orgonomic Point of View: 1) How Cancer Cells Forms; 2) Early Diagnosis of Cancer; 3) Angiogenesis: Solution or Autogoal. Live video under the microscope

Armando Vecchietti, MBiol, Italy

11.40 AM – 12.20 AM: Case Reports on Use of the Orgone Accumulator, Blanket and Shooter with Focus on Treatment of Macular Degeneration

Conny Huthsteiner, MD, USA (talk in distance)

12.20 AM – 1.40 PM: Lunch Break (not included in the “Conference only” rate)

1.40 PM – 2.20 PM: Oranur Medicine Applied to Agriculture

Roberto Maglione, MSc, Italy

2.20 PM – 5.15 PM: Session 4, Orgone Biophysics, Armando Vecchietti, MBiol, Chair

2.20 PM – 3.00 PM: Oranur and Consciousness: New Experimental Data

Leon Southgate, MSc, England

3.00 PM – 3.15 PM: Afternoon Break

3.15 PM – 3.55 PM: Oranur: New Data Associated with Sound Creation and Geiger Count Plasticity

Leon Southgate, MSc, England

3.55 PM – 4.35 PM: Electric and Gravific Functions of Orgone Energy

Roberto Maglione, MSc, Luca Piergentili, MSc, Speaker: Luca Piergentili, MSc, Italy

4.35 AM – 5.15 PM: Thermal Function of Orgone Energy

Roberto Maglione, MSc, Italy

5.15 PM – 6.30 PM: Panel Discussion and Closing Session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From Libido to Orgone

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Contribution to the conference: Wilhelm Reich and the Science of Life Energy: "Orgonomy" November 9, 2019 NYC

Introduction of Dr. Simonian by Dr. Alexander Bingham conference moderator:

Dr. Stephan Simonian is a Board certified general and child psychiatrist he completed medical school in Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. He completed general psychiatric residency training program as well as child psychiatry fellowship at New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center. Concomitant with his psychiatry training program Dr. Simonian completed New York Medical College psychoanalytic Division didactic courses including his own personal required psychoanalysis. In 1990 Dr. Simonian started his personal psychiatric orgone therapy with Dr. Morton Herskowitz. He later became a member of Institute for Orgonomic Science. Dr. Simonian has been practicing general and child psychiatry since 1984.He was chief of department of psychiatry in Milford -Whitinsville Hospital in Milford ,MA for several years, In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles and has been practicing general and child psychiatry and psychiatric orgon therapy in Glendale CA. Dr. Simonian translated the book “Function of Orgasm” by Dr. Wilhelm Reich to Persian language and it is published both in the US and in the Iran. He is the editor of an on line Journal “Psychiatric Orgone Therapy” and has written several articles in that Journal.

Dr. Stephan Simonian:

Thank you very much, and thank you for generous introduction. My part of this conference is to discusses how Reich developed from Freud, because Reich was a student of Freud and he first was psychoanalyst but then he rather digressed from Freud and psychoanalysis and then developed Orgonomy which is rooted in psychoanalysis. So Orgonomy grew in the womb of psychoanalysis, the founder of psychoanalysis was Sigmund Freud,

Orgonomy grew in the womb of

psychoanalysis.

Reich was the student of Freud, and a psychoanalyst in the Freud’s circle.

A picture of Freud given to Reich as a remembrance with Freud’s inscription
stating to Dr. Wilhelm Reich as a kind remembrance of Sig Freud in March
1925. This picture is posted at the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley,
Maine.

This is the Freud’s picture; this is the picture that Freud gave to Reich ass a remembrance and this picture is hanging on the wall of Wilhelm Reich Museum in the Rangeley Main. Freud himself inscribed under the picture stating “To Wilhelm Reich as a remembrance” and dated and signed the picture.

Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley, Maine.

Those who have not visited Wilhelm Reich Museum I encourage them to do it is in the Rangeley Main, it is a serene place very nice, very quiet, with many lakes around it, it is a marvelous vacation place and also a good learning experiment. This is a slide of Wilhelm Reich Museum.

Erwin Stengel, Grete Bibring-Lehner,
Rudolph Lowenstein, and Wilhelm
Reich at the 1934 Lucerne
Psychoanalytic Congress.

Now, this is a picture of Wilhelm Reich, in the Lucerne conference in 1934

This was an international Psychoanalytic Conference. The reason I am showing this slide to you is for you to realize how central figure he is for psychoanalysis at that time, he is an authority in psychoanalysis, he is talking and others around him are listening to him. I want to convey that his knowledge in psychoanalysis is very deep. Someone with deep knowledge in a scientific branch can also further that knowledge. Know that we establish that Freud’s psychoanalysis was the basis of what Reich developed latter on, I will quickly go over some essential principles of psychoanalysis. Freud developed three major theories:

Freud developed 3 major theories

throughout his life

  • Libido theory (economic theory)
  • Topographic theory (theory of Conscious and Unconscious)
  • Structural theory, (theory of Id, Ego and Superego).

First Theory is Libido Theory, or economic theory. The second theory is Topographic Theory, or the theory of Conscious and unconscious, and the third theory is Structural Theory, or the theory of Id, Ego, Superego.

Now, first let’s explain a bit Libido Theory; Freud hypostasized that there must be an innate energy in the child that propagates the life. By observation of the newborns and children he made these assumptions that an innate energy operates in the newborn and goes through different stages of development. Freud made the fallowing conclusion (Slide)

Libido theory

“Economic theory”


  • Hypothetical psychosexual energy operating in
    newborn
  • Is the source of propagation of life
  • Instincts get their power from this energy source
  • Neurosis develops when this energy is blocked.

Topographic Theory, or the Theory of Conscious and unconscious:

Freud assumed that under the human conscious mind there is a larger segment of unconscious, that influences our lives and influences our decisions and pushes us toward directions which we are consciously unaware of it. Psychoneurotic symptoms are manifestations of conflicts that are rooted in the unconscious. Freud postulated that psychoanalytic technique can penetrate into unconscious and bring the unconscious conflict to the consciousness and Freud postulated that when unconscious roots of the conflict becomes conscious than symptoms should improve.

Topographic theory

  • Under the conscious mind there is a larger
    hidden segment of unconscious
  • Psychoneurotic symptoms are manifestations
    of conflict rooted in a person’s unconscious
  • Freud postulated that by psychoanalytic
    technique when the unconscious becomes
    conscious neurotic symptoms should improve.

Structural theory of the Freud or the Theory of ID, EGO and Superego:

Structural theory

  • Freud divided human psychological structure
    to 3 components
  • Id – Which are instinctual strivings
  • Ego – Face and interact with the world
  • Superego – Which is internalized social,
    parental and religious values, causes approval
    & disapproval, creates guilt and demands
    punitive measures.

Freud hypothetically divided human psychosexual structure to three components, Id which is the component of instincts, Ego which is the component that deals, interacts and negotiates with the world, and Superego which is the internalized social, parental and religious values and causes approval or disapproval and creates guilt and demands punitive measures. These three basic theories of Freud overlap in some points with each other.

Freud suggested two types of neurosis, one type of neurosis he called Stasis Neurosis or Actual Neurosis.

Freud suggested 2 types of neurosis

  • Stasis neurosis or actual neurosis, which is caused
    by disturbance of sexual life, damming up of
    libido energy (psychosexual energy) which causes
    toxic reaction in the body such as palpitation,
    hyperventilation and high level of anxiety and can
    be cured by counseling and helping the patient
    not to be abstinent
  • Psychoneurosis, develops because of unconscious
    conflict and can be cured by psychoanalysis.

This neurosis, Freud said, happens when the flow of Libido Energy is blocked because of abstinence which in turn it causes accumulation of the energy and causes toxic reaction and that causes symptoms of neurosis like palpitation, hyperventilation, similar to toxic reaction of elevated thyroid hormone and thyrotoxicosis. Freud suggested that by counselling and helping the patient not to be obstinate, this neurosis will be cured. The second type of Neurosis, was postulated by Freud was called Psychoneurosis, this neurosis was a consequence of unconscious conflict which patient is unaware of it. However, Freud himself agreed that under each psychoneurosis there is a core of stasis neurosis and with each stasis neurosis there is as component of psychoneurosis. So, Reich questioned that since each neurosis contains the other neurotic components as well, and then there is no reason to differentiate between each type of neurosis.

However Freud agreed that underneath of each psychoneurosis there is a core of Stasis neurosis and with each Stasis neurosis there is a component of psychoneurosis. By this consideration no differentiation between neurosis and psychoneurosis seems necessary.

Now to treat psychoneurosis, to penetrate into the unconscious of a patient and make unconscious conscious, we need to have a technique. That technique is Freudian Psychoanalysis. In Psychanalytic technique, Freud suggested that the patient should lay down on a coach and he or she is encouraged to free associate. To talk whatever comes to his mind. By free association, one idea will bring up another idea, like the links of the chain which this eventually will lead us to the unconscious conflict and according to Freud when unconscious conflict gets conscious, the neurotic symptom should improve. Psychoanalyst during the psychoanalysis leads the patient toward discovery of the unconscious conflict.

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Technique

  • Patient lies on couch and is encouraged to say
    whatever comes to his mind
  • By free association ideas like links of chain will
    lead to unconscious conflict
  • Dream interpretation
  • This technique is to make unconscious roots of
    the conflict conscious and according to Freud
    when unconscious becomes conscious patient
    should improve.

Freud also suggested dream interpretation, because dreams contain unconscious elements in a form of symbolic way and dream interpretation helps uncovering some of the unconscious issues.

Picture of psychoanalytic setting

This is a picture of psychoanalytic setting; the psychoanalyst sits on the top of the coach and the patient lays on the coach. Freud postulated that laying position makes easier for the patient to free associate. Also, it was suggested that analyst to be out of the site of the patient.

Psychoanalytic theory and technique does not always work.

However psychoanalytic technique and making unconscious conscious does not always work. Patients often resist the process of psychoanalysis, they do not free associate, or even when they cooperate and eventually reach to the unconscious conflict, often they do not improve. In such cases they only gain an intellectual understanding, they cognitively know why they are feeling miserable or acting in a certain unhealthy way but the still continue to feel miserable and continue to behave in the unhealthy manner and they are helpless to change it. So psychoanalytic theory and technique sometimes work and sometimes doesn’t.

This is the cover picture of Time Magazine in November issue of 1993. The title of the picture says: Is Freud Dead. The author in this article concludes that psychoanalysis and all of its offshoots may in final analysis turn out to be no more reliable then countless other Pseudoscience.

The author of this article states:
“Psychoanalysis and all of its offshoots may in final analysis turn out to be no more reliable than countless other pseudoscience’s”.

Now, keep in mind that this is a major discovery, Freud did a major discovery, and because it is halfway done, because sometimes it does not give results, people have prematurely dismissed it and labeled it “Pseudoscience” Reich, in the book “Reich Speaks of Freud” says : Freud was the Moses who did not reach to promise land! And that is true, he didn’t reach the promise land because the discovery is halfway done and is not complete. Here is where Reich comes to the scene.

Reich was a student of Freud and was analyzing the patients according to Freud’s teachings and instructions, Reich realized that sometimes when unconscious becomes conscious patients improve, sometimes they do not. So, in his mind he was questioning “why”. Reich in the book “Function of Orgasm” gives two examples. First case is a student that Freud referred to Reich, who was suffering from obsessions and was counting a lot. Everything was changing into numbers. Reich analyzed this patient according to Freud’s suggestions and on the ninth month of the analysis an incest fantasy broke through and patient was consequently was able to have satisfying sexual release. The patient had relapse of symptoms and setbacks for few episodes which improved by subsequent satisfying sexual experiences and eventually the symptoms remitted and after he became capable of healthy sexual life, he married and stayed free of symptoms for six years that Reich had contact with him.

In the book of “The Function of Orgasm”, Reich writes about two patients who were treated with psychoanalysis. One of whom had a successful outcome and the other did not.

Concomitantly Reich was analyzing another patient, a waiter whose main symptom was sexual impotence. Reich says” During the third year of the psychoanalysis we arrived at the perfect reconstruction of Primal Scene. He was two years old when this occurred. His mother gave birth to a child and from the adjacent room he had been able to observe every detail of the delivery. The impression of a large bloody hole between mother’s leg became firmly ingrained in his mind. In conscious level he only sensed an emptiness in his own genitals. Based on psychoanalytic knowledge of that time I merely connected his inability to have erection to his severely traumatic impression of seeing the castrated female genital. This analysis was no doubt correct, but at that time I incorrectly assessed the total personality of my patient. He was very quiet, well mannered, well behaved person. He agreed with everything that he was asked to do. In a course of three years of his treatment he never once became angry or exercise criticism, thus according to the prevailing thought of that time he was fully integrated, adjusted character with only one acute symptom, monosymptomatic neurosis.

Reich presented this case to the older analysts at that time and he was praised by them. Reich then thought that if the analysis is fine, then why is that the patient has not improved?

Even when unconscious conflict of neurotic symptoms is discovered the symptoms may persist.

Reich says that he realized that the major problem was this waiter’s unshakable calmness, tranquility and agreeableness that everyone thought that it was an asset, but real sickness was his character. Reich says that after three years of analysis he terminated the analysis and the patient was not improved. The patient accepted the termination as he accepted everything else in his life with politeness calmness. So, Reich realized that the real sickness was this patient’s character and the symptom was sustained on the base of this unhealthy character.

  • From here on Reich moves to character analysis vs. symptom analysis
  • Patient’s whole character resists the treatment
  • It is not important “what the patient says”, It is important “how he says it”.

    • From here on Reich moves into character analysis. He realizes that character is the basis of the illness. The character analysis the takes priority since when character is intact, even when unconscious conflict becomes conscious, the patient dose not improve. Reich moved to character analysis versus symptom analysis, he said it is more important “How patient says” rather than “What he says”. He presented this approach to Freud, but Freud did not approve it and said that whatever patient says should be analyze as it is said. So, Reich, from here on drifted away from Freud and developed two theories, the theory of armoring and the theory of orgasm.

    Hence Reich developed 2 major
    theories

    • A. Theory of Armoring
    • B. Theory of Orgasm

    These are two main psychiatric theories of Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Herskowitz once in one of his lectures said that the discovery of armoring is one of the most important discoveries in psychiatry, which is unknown and unnoticed by conventional psychiatry.

    The theory of armoring

    • The theory of armoring developed in the process of Reich’s work with patient’s resistances to treatment.

    The Theory of armoring developed in the process of Reich’s works with the patient’s resistances. Reich discovered that the patients’ whole character resists to the process of psychoanalysis. It is interesting that in the process of psychoanalysis, when the patient’s’ character is mentioned, patients usually become defensive and deny any negative aspect of their character.

    Reich discovered that the patient’s whole character resists the process of psychoanalysis. It resists the change like aforementioned polite and agreeable waiter.

    Character armor is defined as the sum total of character attitude which an individual develops ass a defense against emotional excitation resulting in rigidities in the body and lack of genuine emotional contact.

    Character armor is defined as the sum total of character attitudes which an individual develops as defense against his emotional excitations resulting in rigidity of the body and lack of genuine emotional contact.

    Character analysis although is in variance with psychoanalytic technique, but still is in the domain of psychoanalysis because it still is in the turf of interacting with the words.

    From 1926 Reich suggested character analysis versus symptoms analysis. Character analysis although in variance with Freud’s technique but still works in the realm of psyche.

    Now character armor has a physical counterpart.

    Character armor has a physical and muscular counterpart which is functionally identical with it but works in the physical realm.

    A patient who is always smiling and nice will develop some muscular contractions and rigidities in his or her face and mouth which as time goes on it becomes permeant feature and turns into muscular armor, now from here on Reich is moving into physical state, into the body. Emotional armor and physical armor are counterpart of each other and functionally identical with each other, one in the realm of psyche and the other in the realm of body (soma).

    Emotional armor and physical armor are counterpart of each other and are functionally identical with each other, one in the realm of psyche and the other in the realm of body.

    Now these things are not known in the conventional psychiatry, they don’t understand the physical component of the psychological features. Reich gives an example of muscular armor in the book “Function of Orgasm”:

    An example of muscular armor from the book “The Function of Orgasm”.
    “A man with stiff neck”.

    Reich says: “I treated a man who offered a considerable resistance to the uncovering of his passive homosexual fantasies. This resistance was overtly expressed in the extreme stiffness in his throat and stiff neck. A concentrated attack on his defense finally caused him to yield though in an alarming way. For three days he was shaken by acute manifestation of vegetative shock the paler of his face changed rapidly from white to yellow to blue, his skin was spotted and mottled, he experienced violent pains in the neck and back of the head, his heartbeat was rapid and pounding and had diarrhea. He felt tired and seemed to have lost control. I was uneasy, true. I had often seen similar symptoms but never in such a violent form. Something had happened here that while somehow a legitimate part of the work was not immediately intelligible. Affects had broken through somatically after the patient had relinquished his attitude of psychic defense. Apparently the stiff neck which emphasized austere masculinity had bond vegetative energies, which now broke loose in an uncontrollable and chaotic manner. A person with an ordered sexual economy is not capable of such reaction. Only continues inhibition and damming up of biological energy can produce it. The musculature has served the function of inhibition. When the neck muscle relaxed powerful impulses as if unleashed from a taught coil broke through”. Reich then describes the technique to dissolve character armor as well as its’ counterpart, muscular and physical armor.

    Dr. Reich developed and describes a technique to dissolve the character armor and its counterpart physical armor in the books of “Character Analysis” & “The Function of Orgasm” and Dr. Herskowitz described it in the book of “Emotional Armoring”.

    The technique of dissolving character armor and physical armor is described by Reich in the book “Character Analysis’ and the book “Function of Orgasm” and also it is described in the book, “Emotional Armoring” written by Dr. Morton Herskowitz. “Pictures of the books”

    Wilhelm Reich
    THE FUNCTION
    OF THE ORGASM

    Volume 1 of the Discovery of the Orgone
    Wilhelm Reich
    CHARACTER ANALYSIS

    THIRD, ENLARGED EDITION

    As we described earlier, character armor and physical armor are counterpart of each other, but in the deeper level they are conjoined with each other.

    This point of view is also unfamiliar to conventional medicine and psychiatry. If you open any psychiatry or medical book and go to the chapter of psych-somatic medicine, in the first couple of pages you will see the declaration of the author stating that psyche and soma are interrelated and interconnected, but when you keep reading a bit more you will reserialize that they talk as if psyche is here and somas is somewhere there, as if they are two separate entities. This is because they do not know the way they are connected with each other. So, chronic contraction of the body tissue that constitutes the muscular and physical armor, is mediated by vegetative or autonomic nervous system therefore the treatment technique to dissolve the physical armor is called “Vegetotherapy”

    Chronic contraction of body tissues is mediated by vegetative (autonomic) nervous system. Treatment technique of physical armoring is called vegetotherapy by Dr. Reich.

    It is called Vegetotherapy because chronic and involuntary muscular contractions are in relation to autonomic nervous system. Vegetotherapy is functionally the same work as character analysis but in a deeper level, in the body and in the muscular realm.

    Vegetotherapy means the same work as character analysis but in a deeper level of biological system.

    As we said earlier Reich has developed two major theories, the theory of armoring and the theory of orgasm, these two theories at the end get integrated with each other and become counterpart of each other. Dissolution of the armor leads to establishment of natural orgiastic potency.

    The theory of armoring and theory of orgasm are interrelated with each other dissolution of armor leads to establishment of natural orgastic potency.

    In the book of “Function of Orgasm” Reich describes the changes in patients in whom the armoring is dissolved and orgiastic potency were restored.

    In the book of “The Function of Orgasm” Reich describes the changes in the patients in whom the armor was dissolved and healthy sexual functioning was restored.

    Reich says: quit spontaneously patients start to experience moralistic attitudes of the world around them something alien and peculiar. No matter how tenaciously they might have defended premarital chastity beforehand, now they experience this demand as grotesque. Such demands no longer had any relevance to them, they became indifferent to them. Their attitude toward the work changed, if they have previously worked mechanically, not demonstrating real interest, they became discriminating. The change in the sexual sphere was just as pronounced, patients’ who felt no qualms about going to prostitutes became incapable for doing so. Wives who had patiently endured living with unloving husband and submitted to sexual act out of marital obligation, they could no longer do so, and they simply refused they had enough. Reich says that when the armoring dissolved and sexual potency is retorted, people developed a character like Jesus Chris character, they became self-regulated, they did not need police to behave.

    I will now mention some of the important points regarding to the Theory of Orgasm:

    The Theory of Orgasm

    • This theory corresponds with Freud’s theory
      of neurosis
    • Reich says: That orgastic impotence is not just
      one of many symptoms of neurosis but it is
      the most important symptom as well as the
      cause of neurosis
    • All neurotic patients are orgastically disturbed.

    Dr. Harry Lewis will be talking about it in more details later today. The theory of orgasm corresponds with Freud’s theory of Neurosis, Reich says that the orgiastic impotence is not just one symptom of neurosis but it is the most important symptom as well as the cause of neurosis. All neurotic patients are orgasticly disturbed. This statement was objected by Reich’s contemporary psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Many of them stated that they have neurotic patients that are orgastically very potent, that they can have sex several times in one night. However, that sexual potency, when is probed a bit, becomes evident that it is not a genuine potency. They either were unable to reach to orgasm, or they had premature ejaculation, or they had to use strange fantasies to achieve orgasm, or after the orgasm they were experiencing a sense of disgust within themselves, etc.

    In Orgonomy orgastic potency is defined as person’s ability to surrender to the flow of biological energy free of any inhibition or fantasy and its capacity to discharge completely the dammed up sexual excitation through involuntary pleasurable convulsions.

    In Orgonomy, orgasmic potency is defined as person’s ability to surrender to the flow of biological energy, free of any inhibition or fantasy and its capacity to discharge completely the dammed up sexual excitation by involuntary pleasurable convulsions.

    Orgasm theory is rich in encompassing concept of expansion and contraction of the living organism and its psychological expression of pleasure and displeasure as well as it’s relation to autonomic nervous system.

    Orgasm theory is a rich theory and encompasses concepts of expansion and contraction of living protoplasm and its psychological expression of pleasure and displeasure as well as its relation to autonomic nervous system.

    Now you can see the difference of treatment theory and approach based on Reich’s description comparing to conventional psychoanalysis and medicine. Psychoanalysis stopes in the most superficial level of psyche, while in Orgonomy it penetrates to the muscles and even deeper into autonomic nervous system, which is far deeper in the tissues and therefore psychiatric orgone therapy brings changes to the patients which are very basic and fundamental.

    Orgastic potency and the process of armoring in deeper level are connected with each other. These are connected with each other, they also are function of autonomic nervous system, which governs the involuntary process of contraction and expansion of the body by sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous branches.

    Orgastic potency and the process of armoring both in deeper level are connected to function of autonomic nervous system which governs the involuntary process of contraction and expansion of the body by sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous branches.

    Now that we recognize that armoring is related to muscular contractions which are mediated by autonomic nervous system, then it is logical to infer that this chronic contraction of the muscles and tissues should cause some physical problems as well. These pathologic changes of the tissues as a consequence of armoring is called Biopathy by Reich. In the book “Cancer biopathy” Reich used the term biopathy for such a physical condition.

    • Now that we recognize the physical armoring by
      contractions of muscles and body tissues and its
      relation to autonomic nervous system, it is logical
      to conclude that many physical illnesses may also
      arise because of the armoring.
    • Reich in the book of cancer biopathy used the
      term biopathy for such physical conditions.
    • Reich says: “The term biopathy refers to all disease
      processes caused by basic dysfunction in the autonomic or
      vegetative nervous system….”

    Reich says: “The term Biopathy is referred to all disease processes which is caused by basic dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Once this happens it can develop neurosis, or cancer or different types of the physical illnesses ”

    Now if armoring of the organism is detrimental to its health then why does it happen?

    Now if armoring is such a bad thing, if it is detrimental to the health of the humans, that it causes psychological and physical illnesses, then why it happens. Why human animal becomes armored.

    Armoring happens in the process of child’s interaction with his environment. This aspect of the Orgonomy enters to the realm of sociology that Dr. Philip Bennett will be talking about it. The anti-sexual and authoritarian upbringing of the children which is prevalent in the most cultures are the main cause of armoring. Schematically the process of armoring is as follows:

    • Armoring happens in the process of a child’s
      interactions with his environment.
    • The antisexual and authoritarian upbringings
      of children prevalent in most cultures are the
      main cause of armoring.
    • Schematically the process of armoring is as
      follows:

    Child initially resists the inhibition that is imposed by the outer world, through some temper tantrums but eventually submits to it and part of the drive splits and identifies with the oppressing force ,turns against itself and soon the oppression from outside becomes unnecessary because part of the child’s impulse dose the function of oppressing force of outer world. In the interface of these two forces armoring develops.

    This is the process of persistence of the traditions, behavior and sicknesses that goes from one generation to the next generation. I have many patients that they say, ” Doctor I hated when my mother or father was doing this to me, I thought I will never do it to my children, but I find myself doing the same thing to my children” Because it has become ingrained in the armor and operates automatically.

    From here on sociological branch of Orgonomy starts which deals with socio-cultural norms that causes armoring.

    The model of the human psychological structure in psychoanalysis is Id, Ego Superego. However in the Orgonomy the model of human psychological structure is, Core, Middle layer and periphery.

    Orgonomic model for a healthy organism is composed
    of core, middle layer and periphery.

    This is depiction of an unarmored human psychological structure in which the impulses are able to be expressed undistorted.

    Diagram depicting basic function in armored organism.
    The inhibition of primary impulses produces secondary
    impulses and anxiety.

    This is the armored structure.

    Schema of the structure of the armor

    The armor prevents and distorts the primary impulses and makes secondary impulses which are distorted forms of the genuine primary impulses. Secondary drives can manifest themselves as sadistic and destructive drives, greed, distorted sexual impulses lascivitisness. which then has to be covered up by insincere excessive politeness, kindness or harsh moral attitudes. The armor is complicated interlacing forces acting against each other.

    In the book “Mass Psychology of Fascism” Reich says: Extensive and painstaking therapeutic work on the human character has led me to conclude that as a rule we are dealing with three different layers of biopsychic structure in the evaluation of human reaction. These three layers of the human character structure are deposits of social development which functions autonomously.

    In the book “Mass Psychology of Fascism” Reich says: Extensive and painstaking
    therapeutic work on the human character has led me to the conclusion that, as a rule, we are dealing with three different layers of the biopsychic structure in the evaluation of the human reactions. These layers of character structure are deposits of social development, which function autonomously.

    Reich says: On the surface layer of his personality, the average man is reserved, polite, compassionate, responsible and conscientious. There would be no social tragedy of the human animal if this surface layer of the personality were in direct contact with the deep natural core. This, unfortunately, is not the case. The surface layer of social cooperation is not in contact with the deep biologic core of one’s selfhood; it is borne by a second, an intermediate character layer, which consists exclusively of cruel, sadistic, lewd, greedy and envious impulses. It represents the Freudian “unconscious” or “what is repressed”; to put it in the language of sex-economy, it represents the sum total of all so-called “secondary drives…

    If one penetrates through this destructive second layer, deeper into the biologic substratum of the human animal, one always discovers the third, deepest, layer, which we call the biologic core. In this core, under favorable social conditions, man is an essentially honest, industrious, cooperative, loving and, if motivated, rationally hating animal.”

    Reich says “Had I known it, I would have packed up and ran, but it is too late now”

    The biological energy that works in the human organism and Freud called it Libido and Reich named it orgone, in the human organism, based on orgonomic assumption originates in the autonomic ganglions, and by pulsating manner propagates in the body by sympathetic and para sympathetic nervous branches. Vegetative centers are abundant in the lower abdominal area which is called solar, hypogastric and lumbosacral plexus. This assumption is supported by a physiology experiment done in Pavlov institute in Leningrad, Russia on 1961 in a paper written by Zamiatine.

    The biological energy that operates in the human organism which Freud called it Libido and Reich named it Orgone, originates in vegetative ganglions and propagates through the body in a pulsating manner by vegetative nervous system. This vegetative centers are most abundant in lower abdominal area solar plexus, hypogastric plexus and lumbosacral plexus.

    In this paper the author verifies that there is pulsation propagating from the ganglion independent of higher centers in a cat.

    This orgonomic concept is supported in paper Zamiatine, N. (1961). Electrophysiological analysis of excitation conduction through ganglia of the solar plexus. Journal of physiology of USSR. 47(6), 1-8.

    Schematic depiction of the ganglion emitting the energy.

    Reich identified same energy that operates inside the living organism, orgone energy, in the environment, in the atmosphere, and tried to harvest it by different devices and used it medically.

    From here on Biophysical aspects of Orgonomy branches off that Dr. Hutstiener will be talking about it.

    • Reich identified the same energy, orgone
      energy in the atmosphere and tried to harvest
      it by different devices and use it medically.
    • From here on the biophysical branch of
      Orgonomy develops.

    Reich identified same energy that operates inside the living organism, orgone energy, in the environment, in the atmosphere, and tried to harvest it by different devices and used it medically.

    Reich says: the basic theory belongs to Freud but I furthered it so much that he himself could not recognize it anymore.

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    Conference: Wilhelm Reich & The Science of Life Energy

    Posted on 20 September 2018. Tags: , , ,

    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 its medical,
    psychiatric and social consequences."

    10:45 am – 11:00 am
    Questions and answers.

    11:00 am – 11:15 am
    "Rain makers" video by Peter Mackie.

    11:15 am – 12:00 pm
    Roberto Maglione, MSc: "Using Reich’s Cloudbuster to
    combat atmospheric pollution."

    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Lunch break (buffet).

    1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
    Conny Huthsteiner, M.D. "Cloudbusting by Reich in Contact with
    Space: Strategy to combat global warming."

    1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
    HavardFriis Nilsen, Ph.D: "Between Black and Red Fascism:
    Wilhelm Reich’s Political Theories
    and Experiences in the Interwar Years."

    2:30 pm – 2:45 pm
    Questions and answers.

    2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
    Coffee break.

    3:00 pm – 3:45 pm
    Roberto Maglione, MSc: "The origin of an Oranur reaction
    and the orgone motor."

    3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
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    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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    Dr. Morton Herskowitz 100

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    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, ex-patients and IOS members were among the attendees. Robin gave a speech about her father, and his grandson spoke about Dr. Herskowitz’s effect on his life. Dr. Herskowitz himself gave a short speech as well. He expressed his gratification of being a bridge between Reich and the next generation of students and physicians and passing on Reich’s teachings to them. Dr. Herskowitz also talked about how he became a student of Reich. He discussed some of his memories with Reich and recalled the way he first got to know Dr. Reich. He learned about Reich through his fiancé’s father who asked him if he had read Reich’s book “Sexual Revolution”. His future father in law told him that he felt Reich was brilliant. To impress his future father in law Dr. Herskowitz read the book and since he was a psychiatry resident he chose Dr. Reich as his analyst. He made an appointment to see him in Forest Hill, New York. He then asked some of his mentors and supervisors in the hospital what they knew about Reich. A few of the doctors that he spoke to told Dr. Herskowitz that Reich had become psychotic and was locked up in some type of chronic psychiatric asylum. Dr. Herskowitz stated that he was surprised, and told them that he had just made an appointment with Dr. Reich in Forest Hills! Dr. Herskowitz concluded that misinformation and gossip affected the profession and distorted the truth.

    Dr. Herskowitz blowing out his birthday candle.

    Dr. Herskowitz and Stephan Simonian.

    Jim Strick can be seen sitting in the middle of the table with IOS members, Dorothy Burlage, Grier Sellers and Hugh Brenner.

    IOS member Irmgard Bertelsen talking to guests.

    At the end of the celebration, Dr. Herskowitz was presented with a letter from James F. Kenney, the mayor of Philadelphia, congratulating him for his 100th birthday and commending his remarkable achievements.

    The following is the letter:

    The party was a great success. We socialized with one another, and recognized Dr. Herskowitz’s work and his teachings and expressed our gratitude towards him.

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    Report on International Conference on Orgonomy, October 4 – 6, Rome, Italy

    Posted on 21 November 2013. Tags: , , , , ,

    The Italian Association of Orgonomy hosted the International Conference on Orgonomy in Rome last month, October 4-6. Several international speakers were invited, including four IOS members: Conny Huthsteiner, M.D. Philip Bennett, PhD. Hugh Brenner, FPNP. and Stephan Simonian, M.D. The conference was launched with Dr. Morton Herskowitz’s videotaped keynote address. Herskowitz, who is now 95 and resides and practices in Philadelphia, is the sole surviving student of Wilhelm Reich. The videotaped address, produced by Huchsteiner, was greeted by a lengthy applause from the audience.

    Dr. Morton Herskowitz

    Other speakers included James DeMeo, Peter Robbins, Armando Vecchietti, Roberto Maglione, Peter Jones, Tina Lindermann, Wendy Kohli, Jorgos Kavouroas, and Reneta Reich Moise. During one of her presentations, Ms. Reich Moise, Wilhelm Reich’s granddaughter, spoke about her life as well as her family history. Emotionally touching and historically interesting, her talk was well-received as were the presentations by all IOS members.

    Organizers of the conference included Francisco Zito as well as Armando Vecchietti, Roberto Maglione, and Bruno Franchi, all members of the Italian Association of Orgonomy.

    Mr. Zito and his daughter, Sheila

    Mr. Zito is currently assembling a panel of speakers for next year’s conference in Italy. Such conferences are crucial to introducing Orgonomy to the public.

    Overall, the conference was a successful, stimulating event. An estimated 120 attendees participated in the international conference, which provided simultaneous translating services between English and Italian via headset. Included below is a list of the wide range of topics and corresponding presenters. For detailed biographies of the speakers as well as abstracts of the topics, please visit the following website: www.orgone.org In addition, DVDs of individual speakers as well as the entire conference are available for purchase by contacting Mr. Zito at zetafrancis@yahoo.it. Finally, we would like to thank the Italian Association of Orgonomy for organizing this conference and look forward to future successful conferences in the coming years.

     

    Phillip Bennett, PhD.
    What is Orgonomy?
    Orgonomic Infant Research Center and Its Historic Content
    Work Democracy

    Conny Huthsteiner, M.D.
    Psychiatric Orgone Therapy
    Moving Toward Life Energy, Changing Concept of Energy Since 1955
    Love, Sexuality, God and Family Life

    Hugh Brenner, FPNP.
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Use and the Misuse of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy in the Pediatric Population
    Where Do We Go From Here? Discussion on Research Directions in Orgonomy
    Opening the Eyes

    Roberto Maglione, MSc.
    Recovering Natural Atmosphering Pulsation from Reich to Present Days
    Methods and Procedures in Biophysical Orgonometry

    James DeMeo, PhD.
    Field Experiments with Reich DOR Buster for Draught and Desert Greening: Success and Problems
    Laboratory Evaluations are the Proof of Reich’s Orgone Energy: Electroscope, Charged Water and Vacuum.
    Saharasi: Cross Cultural Proof of Reich’s Sex Economic Theory and Origin of Violence Question

    Reneta Reich Moise, CNM.
    Gentle Support during Pregnancy and Birth
    Birth as Transformative Experience
    Self-Regulation within the Real World: Growing up as the Granddaughter of Wilhelm Reich

    Jorgos Kavouroas, M.D.
    Combination of Psychiatric and Physical Orgone Therapy (orac and DOR buster)
    The Use of Physical Orgone Therapy (orac and DOR buster) as a Powerful Medical Device in Everyday Clinic over More than 15 Years
    The New Medicine: Reich’s Contribution to Holistic Medicine

    Tina Linderman, M.D.
    The Use of Orgone Energy Accumulator of the Reich Medical DOR-Buster, in Practical Clinic also with Cancerous Patients
    The Emotional Plague Today
    My Personal Experience Working with Medical Orgone Therapy

    Wendy Kohli, PhD.
    Self-Regulation and Education

    Peter Robins, BSA
    Wilhelm Reich and UFO’s part 1 Claude Busting and the Origin of Reich’s Interest in the Unidentified Flying Objects
    Wilhelm Reich and UFO’s part 2 A Concise History of Wilhelm Reich’s Involvement with UFO’s
    Final Thoughts on Wilhelm Reich and UFO’s and Account of USAF’s Military Application of Claude Buster Technology

    Armando Vecchieti, MSOLSc.
    Cancerous Process and Early Cancer Diagnosis:Use of Orgone Accumulator of Reich

    Stephan Simonian, M.D.
    Schizophrenia: An Orgonomic Perspective
    Psychiatry – Reich = Physics – Einstein
    Central Importance of Orgasm Theory in Psychiatric Orgone Therapy

    Peter Jones, OB.
    The Reich Blood Test
    The Bions
    Orgone Therapeutic Support in Labor

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