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:

Picture of 2013’s International Orgonomic 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.

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

On Saturday May 24 and Sunday May 25 an Orgonomy conference was held in the home/office of Dr. Stephan Simonian in Granada Hills, CA. This conference was sponsored by The Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy. The conference was titled “ORGONE ENERGY IN ACTION”. Speakers were invited from different parts of the world. Considering the multinational composure of the speakers, the conference could be classified as international orgonomy conference. The conference began with Dr. Cony Huthsteiner’s introduction and
Dr. Simonian provided the opening speech.

Dr. Simonian’s speech was entitled “The Theory of Orgone Therapy and Beyond”. Dr. Simonian discussed the theory upon which orgone therapy is based on, as well as the effect of orgonomy in sociology, biophysics, medicine, psychology and psychiatry.

Mr. Michael Mannion spoke next. Mannion’s speech was entitled “Orgone Energy, Demonstrable, Measurable and Usable”. Under this topic, Mr. Mannion provided documentations and interesting data regarding the treatment of different medical conditions, most importantly, the healing of retinal macular degeneration by using an orgone energy device. Mr. Michael Mannion also delivered the closing lecture the next day under the topic of “The medical and scientific legacy of Wilhem Reich, proof of concept”. Mr. Mannion’s closing lecture was emotionally touching.

Professor Jorgos Kavouras, MD. was the next speaker. Professor Dr.Kavouras is a very effective speaker who is able to connect with the audience easily. His first lecture on Saturday May 24, was entitled “Experiences with and Practice of Physical Orgone Therapy”. During this speech, he talked about his experiences and the significant healing effects that he has obtained by using orgone energy devices. His second speech was entitled “Nature, Orgone Energy and Health”
which was also very interesting and moving.

Mr. Roberto Maglione, MSc, followed Professor Dr. Kavouras. His speech was entitled, “What is orgone energy, it’s relation to other forms of energies”. During this speech Mr. Maglione brought up the concept of Ether and discussed the fact that this concept was agreed upon and was accepted until Einstein declared that this concept is inaccurate and space is empty. However, considering the fact that all along throughout the history scientists and philosophers have accepted the concept of Ether, Einstein’s decline of this theory is questionable. Mr. Maglione also spoke on the next day, Sunday May 25, under the title of old and new methodology of measurement of orgone energy with the examples. His lecture during the second day was extensive and provided numerous examples and instruments that is able to produce such data.

Dr. Armando Vecchietti was the next speaker, who spoke about the formation of cancer cells and orgonomic prospective of early cancer diagnosis. His speech was in Italian but the speech was energetic and was translated by Mr. Emilio De Simone. It was pleasure to hear him speak in Italian with such an energy that was also, contiguous and energizing the audience. Dr. Vecchietti also, spoke the next day under the title of “Function of Tumor and Angiogenesis from orgonomic Point of View, and Notes on Practical Use of Orgone Accumulator by Wilhem Reich.

Mr. Leon Southage MSc was the next speaker who spoke under the title of “Brief Overview of Biophysical Experiments since Wilhelm Reich and Overview of Orgone Acupuncture”. He provided different published articles and experiments after Wilhelm Reich. He is very knowledgeable in orgone biophysics and he spoke the next day, under the title of “Reich’s ORUNUR Experiment, its significance and replication.

Ms. Patricia Estrada was the next speaker. Ms. Estrada is one of the founders of The Institute of Orgonomy in Mexico. She talked about the institute’s activities in Central and South America, its function in introducing and promoting orgonomy in Spanish speaking continents. Her speech attracted many online conections from abroad.

The next speaker was Mr. Amir Mohseni M.S. who was unable to travel to the United States from Iran. He was scheduled to talk about “Introduction to Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy in Iran, Social and a legal challengers”. Unfortunately, he was unable to obtain a Visa but he sent a paper which was read by Dr. Arin Simonian. In this speech he described the way he was introduced to Reich, his experience in treating patients by this approach and the surprising results he has observed. He briefly touched on the challenges in Iran regarding introducing orgonomy and also provided hopeful notes for future.

On Sunday May 25, Tina Lindermann,MD from Austria, talked about experiments with orgone therapy and also, status of orgonomy in Europe. This presentation was virtual. She spoke eloquently and discussed cases as well as the plan for future control studies in orgone therapy. It was a pleasure to listen to her.

Ms. Renata Reich Moise MSN, CNM. was the next speaker. Ms. Renata Reich Moise is Wilhelm Reich’s granddaughter and Eva Reich’s daughter. Her talk was about the orgone energy accumulator and its use in the home and community. She is also, president of the Wilhelm Reich’s Infant Trust and responsible for Wilhelm Reich’s Museum. She talked about the status of Wilhelm Reich’s Museum and actions that have been taken to keep the Museum well functional and in a good shape. This presentation was also virtual. Renata spoke eloquently and audience were deeply touched by her speech. It was pleasure to hear her.

Dr. Conny Huthsteiner was the next speaker that talked on Sunday May 25. Dr. Conny Huthseiner is a psychiatrist and during this conference was acting as the moderator. By attestation of all she did a marvelous job as moderator but also she talked about the subject of ”Orgone energy, Water and Weather”. Dr. Huthsteiner is a good speaker and it was a pleasure to hear her talking.

At the end of the sessions, a pannel discussion was held on Sunday May 25, and the audience had an opportunity to ask questions and the speakers were able to respond including those who were talking virtually. The venue of the conference provided a specious and relaxed environment with pine trees. Mr. Leon Southgate also wrote an article entitled “Reflections on the Orgone Conference”. He described the environment and his experience as :

“What a fantastic time I had , so many really special people and fabulous villa on a hillside to experience it all in. There was huge pine trees and a golf course below, listen to the birds from the comfort of your outdoor patio double orgone accumulator! Nice.”

The audience as well as speakers had an opportunity to mingle and related to each other and exchange ideas. They were able to enjoy a relaxed environment and enjoy intellectual contact with each other. This conference also, provided opportunity for us to plan for the future and discuss the possibilities of future activities. The next provisional international orgonomy conference will take place in Italy under the directorship of Roberto Maglione.

The conference speeches and sessions were video taped and will be published one at a time in the “Journal of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy” as well as available on the “YouTube”. We will try to make both the video presentation as well as the transcript of the lectures available for the readers and hope this will have a snowball affect in further promoting introduction of orgonomy.

The followings are the transcription of the speech given on November 17, 2018 by Dr. Stephan Simonian at an Orgonomy conference in Glendale, CA.

"Evolution of psychiatric orgone therapy from psychoanalysis and its medical, psychiatric and social consequences."
By: Stephan Simonian M.D.

Thank you all for coming. The part that is now on my shoulder in this conference is to describe how from psychoanalysis Reich developed into this Orgonomy. So it is rather a tall order since I only have 45 minutes to describe all this. I am going to put up on a slideshow and walk you through it. This process is described in the book "Function of Orgasm" which is about 400 pages and I’m going to walk you through this slideshow but I have to go a little fast and hopefully I’ll be able to describe it all. The title of my talk is "Evolution of Psychiatric Orgone Therapy from Psychoanalysis and its Medical Psychiatric and Social Consequences" so it ends up from psychoanalysis to all these different aspects that affects our lives.

Orgonomy grew in the womb of psychoanalysis.

Orgonomy grew in the womb of psychoanalysis, the founder of psychoanalysis was Sigmund Freud, Reich was a student of Freud and in the book "Function of orgasm" Reich praises Freud and says: "I spent 14 years of intensive work in and for psychoanalysis but in the end I was extremely disappointed in Freud. Fortunately this disappointment did not lead to hatred and rejection. Quite contrary today I can appreciate Freud’s achievement in a far better and deeper way then I could in those days of youthful enthusiasm I am happy to have been his student for such a long time without having to criticize him prematurely and with complete devotion to his cause". Freud gave a picture of himself as a remembrance to Reich, under the picture he  inscribed " to Dr. Wilhelm Reich as a kind remembrance from Sigmund Freud dated 1925". This picture is at the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley Maine.

Sigmund Freud. The photograph is in inscribed (in German): "To Dr. Wilhelm Reich as a kind remembrance of Sigm Freud. March 1925."

To talk about how Orgonomy developed from psychoanalysis I’m quickly going to go over some of the psychoanalytic major theories.

Freud developed 3 major theories throughout his life.

Freud’s major theories
Libido theory (the theory of psycho-sexual energy)
Topographic theory (theory of Conscious and Unconscious)
Structural theory, (theory of Id, Ego and Superego).

The first theory is the libido theory which is the theory of energy. The second theory is the Topographic theory or theory of conscious and unconscious and the third theory is the Structural theory so called the theory of Id, Ego and Super ego. Freud had to assume an existence of an energy that operates in the newborn which is the source of propagation of life and neurosis develops when this energy is blocked. Instincts get their power from this energy.

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

Topographic theory is a theory of conscious and unconscious. Freud stated that under the conscious mind there is a large segment hidden which is unconscious and it affects our lives.  Neurotic symptoms are manifestation of conflict rooted in the unconscious and Freud postulated that by psychoanalytic technique, when the unconscious becomes conscious, neurotic 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.

The structural theory which is the last theory of Freud divides human psychological structure to three components: Id, which is the component that is composed of instinctual strivings, Ego which is the part which faces the word and negotiates with the word and Superego which is the internalized social parental and religious values which causes approval or disapproval and creates guilt and demands punitive measures.

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 also proposed two types of neurosis, first type he called it stasis neurosis. This is caused by disturbance of the sexual life when there is damming up of the libido energy, because of poor sexual life or poor discharge of sexual energy and accumulation of the libido energy which causes toxic reaction such as palpitation, hyperventilation, high level of anxiety and that can be cured by counseling and by helping the patient not to be abstinent. Freud also proposed the second type of neurosis which he called it psychoneurosis which develops because of an unconscious conflict that needs psychoanalysis to resolve the conflict. However Freud agreed that underneath of each psychoneurosis there is a core of stasis neurosis and then with each stasis neurosis there is a component of psychoneurosis, so really there is no need for differentiation since each has part of the other one.

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 which develops because of unconscious conflict and can be cured by psychoanalysis.

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.

 Freud’s technique, how we can go into unconscious and make the unconscious conflict conscious is the psychoanalysis. The technique that Freud proposed is that patient lies on the couch and the patient is encouraged to talk and say whatever comes to his mind, so called free associate. By free association one though brings another though like links of chain and eventually leads to the unconscious conflict. Freud suggested that when unconscious conflict of the neurotic symptoms becomes conscious, the patient should improve.

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Technique
Patient lies on couch and is encouraged to say whatever comes to his mind
By free association ideas and thoughts 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 patient should improve. 

Freud also suggested dream interpretation because he says that there is some component of unconscious in a symbolic way in a dream and by the interpretation of the dream if we can decode the dream we will be able to help make the unconscious conscious. According to Freud when the unconscious conflict becomes conscious, patient will improve.

In psychoanalytic setting, the psychoanalyst sits on the top of the couch and the patient lies on the couch. Freud suggested by lying on the couch the free association happens more easily and patients are able to talk more easily. However psychoanalytic theory and technique does not always work. There is resistances and sometimes patients don’t free associate, they talk about irrelevant things and this process gets halted in the middle or even when the unconscious conflicts becomes conscious patient don’t always improve. In other words patient cognitively, intellectually understands why he/she feels miserable but he/she still feels miserable and things does not improve. Reich was following Freud’s technique; he realized that some patients do not get better when their unconscious becomes conscious.

Psychoanalytic theory and technique does not always work
Reich gives 2 examples of treatment of patients with conflicting results.

Reich gives two examples of many cases that he had seen. In the first example, the patient, was a student that Freud referred to him. He was suffering from obsessive thoughts and was constantly counting numbers. Reich followed the exact suggestions of Freud and did the analysis as Freud suggested. After a period of treatment, an incest fantasy broke through and after that patient was able to have a healthier sexual life and was able to have a gratifying sexual relation after which the symptoms improved. This was a proof that Freud’s theory and technique was correct. He was concomitantly analyzing a waiter. I’m going read this case because it illustrates what we want to say and how Reich started to depart from Freud. Reich was analyzing a waiter who was totally incapable of having an erection. Reich says:  "During the third year of psychoanalysis we arrived at a perfect reconstruction of primal scene [means the scene that caused initial trauma to the patient]. He was 2 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 the mother’s legs became firmly ingrained in his mind. On a conscious level they remained only the sensation of emptiness in his own genitals. Based on psychoanalytic knowledge of that time, I mearly connected his inability to have erection to his severely traumatic impression of castrated female genitalia. This analysis was no doubt correct, at that time I incorrectly assessed the total personality of my patient. He was a very quiet, well mannered, well behaved person and did everything that he was asked to do. In a course of three years of treatment he never once became angry or exercised criticism, thus according to prevailing thought he was fully integrated adjusted character with only one acute symptom, monosymptomatic neurosis". Reich presented this case to the older analysts and was praised for his precise analytical work and they considered the analysis to be successful. However Reich wondered that if the treatment had in fact been successful then why had the patient not improved? Reich says: "It did not occur to anyone of us that it was precisely this emotional tranquility and unshakable calmness which formed the pathological characterological basis to which erectile impotence could be maintained. I terminated the analysis several months later and the patient had not been cured. The patient accepted the termination of treatment as he accepted everything else in his life with politeness, placidity and passivity".

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

From here on Reich moved into character analysis versus symptoms analysis. He realized that the sickness was the patient’s character that everyone thought it was an asset. In fact that was what was preventing him from getting better, so he moved from the symptoms analysis to character analysis. In another word Reich realized that it was not important "what the patient says", it is important "how he says it". If the character is intact then even if the patient discovers the unconscious reasons of his neurosis, the patient will only gain an intellectual insight to his problem, but the problem will persist. The first case proved correctness of Freud; the second case indicated that this technique does not always work.

The first case reflects correctness of Freud’s theory of neurosis and psychoneurosis (patient improved after having satisfactory sexual release) and after unconscious conflict became conscious
The 2nd patient, the waiter did not improve.

Hence Reich developed two major theories: Theory of armoring and Theory of orgasm. Both theories developed concomitantly and at the end they converge and become part of each other.

Hence Reich developed 2 major theories
A. Theory of Armoring
B. Theory of Orgasm

In other words armoring of the body, the character armoring, prevents the flow of energy and prevents the possibility of orgastic potency so these two theories they become integratal part of each other. The theory of armoring developed in the process of Reich’s work with the patient’s resistance to treatment. The treatment was sometimes successful and sometimes the patients were resisting the process of treatment. Reich realized that the character of the patient was what blocked the process.

The theory of armoring
The theory of armoring developed in the process of Reich’s work for psychoanalytic society in the process of dealing with patient’s resistances to treatment.

Reich discovered that the patient’s whole character resists the process of psychoanalysis, it resists the change like that aforementioned waiter who was able to discover the unconscious reason but his symptoms persisted.

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

Reich discovered that to bring a fundamental and meaningful improvement to the patient the character resistance should be dissolved first. He developed a technique for character analysis to break that character resistance and bring the movement of emotions. He defined the character resistance as the character armor.

Reich discovered that to bring a fundamental and meaningful improvement to the patient, the character resistance should be dissolved first. He developed a technique of character analysis and called character resistance as character armor.

He defined character armor as sum total of character attitudes which an individual develops as a defense against his emotional excitements resulting in rigidity of 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.

As you may realize, Reich now is moving away from Freud by not doing symptom analysis but doing character analysis first. Although he is moving away from Freud, he is still working in the realm of psychology.

However the character of the patient has a physical counterpart, character armor has a physical and muscular counterpart which is functionally identical but works in the physical realm.

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

In another word a patient who has learned to assume a pleasant attitude by constantly smiling, will develop muscular rigidity in his or her fascial muscles, the cheeks will become stiff, or a person who is constantly defensive and keeps the neck uptight, there will be a muscular contraction in his neck muscles and as time goes on the muscular contraction will become chronic and will becomes part of his personality. Reich gives an example of a muscular and physical armor in the book of Function of Orgasm,

Reich gives an example of muscular and physical armor in the book of "Functional Orgasm":
I treated a man who offered a considerable resistance to the uncovering of his passive homosexual fantasies…..

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 or emotions had broken through somatically and physically after the patient had relinquished his attitude of psychic defense. Apparently the stiff neck which emphasized austere masculinity had bond vegetative energies, biosexual energy which now broke loose in an uncontrollable and chaotic manner. A person with an ordered sexual economy, healthy and natural sexual function, is not capable of such reaction only continues inhibition of damming up of biological energy can produce it. The musculature has served the function of inhibition when the neck muscle is relaxed powerful impulses as if unleashed from a taut coil had broken through".

Emotional armor and physical and muscular 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.

From here on Reich is moving into muscular realm, he is moving from psychology into biology, into body. Emotional and physical armor are counterpart of each other and functionally are identical with each other. One in realm of psyche the other one in the realm of body but as you see he is moving away from Freud more and more, he is going into the physical biological realm..

This is a schematic depiction of how we see in the Orgonomy the relation between the body and psyche. There is a source of biological energy and psychosomatic identity but it divides, into Psche and Soma, but in the depth they are both merge together and are one. Dr. Reich developed and described a technique to dissolve the character armor and its counterpart physical armor. He developed a technique to break the character armor but for physical armor he also developed a technique and the technique is described in the book Function of Orgasm and Character Analysis and also Dr. Herskowitz who was his last student and recently passed away at age 100 had a book called Emotional Armoring that he described the technique in that book as well.

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".

Armoring hinders the orderly flow of psychosexual energy (orgone energy, feeling and emotions) in the body and hinders orgastic potency armor should be dissolved. Therefore the theory of orgasm and the theory of armoring are inseparable from each other and are integral part of each other.

Reich says that in the cases that he was able successfully dissolve the armor and restore healthy sexuality, patients significantly changed and they changed unexpectedly, he gives some example of the changes that happens in the patients.

Reich says in the cases that he was able to successfully dissolve the armor and restore healthy sexuality changes in the patients were intense and unexpected. He gives the following examples:

Dr. Reich stated" quit spontaneously patients began to experience the moralistic attitude of the world around them as 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 for them, they became indifferent to them. Their attitude towards their work changed. If they had previously worked mechanically not demonstrating a real interest now they became discriminating. The change in the sexual sphere was just as pronounced. Patients who had felt no qualms about going to prostitutes became incapable of doing so… wives who have patiently endured living with unloving husband and had submitted to the sexual act out of marital obligation could no longer do so and they simply refused, they had had enough". Reich says that when the armor is resolved and the sexual potency is restored the people developed characters like "Jesus Christ character".

Reich also developed the theory of orgasm. This theory corresponds with theory of neurosis of Freud. Freud said that when the libido energy is blocked neurotic symptoms develop. So the theory of orgasm also corresponds with theory of neurosis of Freud.  Reich says that the orgastic impotence is not just one of many symptoms of neurosis but it is the most significant symptom as well as the cause of neurosis.

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 significant symptom as well as the cause of neurosis.

In other words Reich said that every neurotic patient is sexually disturbed. Reich’s contemporary psychiatrists and psychoanalysts disagreed with him saying that they have many patients that are sexually very potent but they have neurotic symptoms. However that sexual potency when analyzed and probed little bit deeper, showed not a genuine potency. True they were capable of having sex but they either couldn’t reach orgasm or there were pre mature ejaculation or they had all types of strange fantasies. In Orgonomy healthy 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 healthy 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.

Orgasm theory is a rich theory and it 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. While the autonomic nervous system in the body that is responsible for pulsation and is involuntary and is causing expansion and contraction of the body.

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.

So as you see, we are going from the psychology which is the highest order to character analysis then to the muscular attitude and body and then even deeper into the nervous system into the autonomic nervous system, so you see how deep and basic is Reich’s theories in the psychiatric treatment. It does not stop on psychology, it goes into the body and brings changes which are much deeper and therefore the changes in the patients are much basic and fundamental changes.

Sexual 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.

Sexual 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 the physical armoring by contraction of the muscles of the body tissues and its relation to autonomic nervous system, it is logical to conclude that many of the physical illnesses also arise from the armoring of the body. In other words, I want to show how logically Reich’s theories are progressing, how logically and scientifically it is progressing. Now if there is physical armoring, if there is a contraction in the muscular of the body as a result of armoring then there must be some changes in the physical domain in the physical area, in the body tissues.

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 can also arise because of the armoring of the body.
Reich in the book of cancer biopathy used the term biopathy for such physical conditions.
Reich says:

In the book of Cancer Biopathy Reich 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 of life apparatus. Once started, this dysfunction can manifest itself in variety of symptomatic disease pattern. A biopathy can result in carcinomatous biopathy, but it can just as easily lead to angina pectoris, asthma, cardio vascular hypertension, epilepsy, catatonic or paranoid schizophrenia, anxiety neurosis, multiple schorosis, choria and chronic alcoholism etc. We are still ignorant of the function that determines the direction in which biopathy will develop". In another word why in someone biopathy causes angina pectoris and in other person cancer still needs to be understood. "Of prime importance to us however is the common denominator of all these diseases as disturbance in the natural function of pulsation".

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

Now, if armoring of the organism is such a detrimental thing to our health, if it’s such a bad thing then why does it happen? From here on we are entering into sociological sphere of Orgonomy, where Mr. Howard will talk about how Orgonomy enters into sociology. Armoring happens in the process of child’s interaction with his environment. The anti-sexual and authoritarian upbringings of the children which are prevalent in 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:

Schematically there is the drive of the child "D" and there is the inhibition that is exerted from the world "W". Initially the child protests, cries a bit, throws a temper tantrum but eventually submits to it. Part of the drive splits from the main drive and turns against it, so after a while there is no need for outer inhibitory force. The child’s organism itself does the work of inhibition. In some ways this is the schematic depiction of it. Many times patients tell me "doctor I hated when my mother or father was doing this to me but I find myself doing the same thing to my children". 

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

The psychoanalytic theory has a model for the human psychiatric structure. Their model is based on, Id, Ego and Superego of Freud’s structural theory. Our model the orgonomic model, of human

psychological structure is based on core, middle layer and periphery. In a healthy organism where there is no armoring the impulses originates from the core and can manifest itself in the surface without distortion. An unarmored person is able to show the love, pleasure or the anger in an undistorted way if he wants to.

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

This is the depiction of the armored organism. In the armored organism however the person is unable to show what initial primary drive is. The armor prevents and distorts the feelings and changes them to something different. On the surface the person shows an exaggerated politeness like the waiter we talked about and manifests character traits but inside there is a distorted feelings and secondary drives that are different from the original impulse.

Once the organism becomes armored the primary impulses that are natural, rational love, natural sexuality, rational anger and rational hate becomes distorted.

Once the organism becomes armored the primary impulses that are natural, rational love, natural sexuality, rational anger and rational hate becomes distorted and it can show in a different ways. From here on sociological branch of Orgonomy develops which deals with sociocultural norms that causes armoring. Reich in the book of "Function of Orgasm: says:
"The patriarchal authoritarian era of human history has attempted to hold the asocial impulses in check by means of compulsive moralistic prohibitions. It is in this way that civilized man if he can be called civilized developed a psychic structure consisting of three layers. On the surface he wears an artificial mask of self-control compulsive insincere politeness and pseudosociality. This mask conceals the second layer the Freudian unconscious in which sadism, greed, lewdness, envy, perversions of all kinds etc. are held in check without however being deprived of the slightest amount of energy. This second layer is the artificial product of sex negating, culture and is usually experienced consciously as a gaping inner emptiness and desolation. Beneath it in the depth natural sociality, sexuality, spontaneous joy in work and capacity for love exist and operates. This third and deeper layer which represents the biological core of the human structure is the unconscious and it is feared. It is in variance with every aspect of authoritarian education and control. At the same time it is the only real hope man has of one day mastering social misery".

From here on sociological branch of Orgonomy starts which deals with socio-cultural norms that causes armoring.
Reich in the book of "Reich Speak of Freud" says that following:

 But I assure you that there is no solution to this world’s problems unless this point is cleared up sociologically, politically, economically, psychologically, structurally, character logically, in every single respect. I don’t believe that there will be any solution of any social problem as long as children and adolescents grow up with a stasis of biological energy.

The biological energy that operates in the human organism in a pulsating manner originates and propagates throughout the body from autonomic ganglions and by autonomic nervous system.
Reich identified 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.

The biological energy that operates in the human organism in a pulsating manner originates and propagates through the body from the autonomic ganglions and autonomic nervous systems. Reich identified the same energy, orgone energy, in the atmosphere and tried to harvest it by different devices and used it medically. From here on biophysical branch of Orgonomy develops.

This is depiction of the function of the autonomic nervous system that originates and propagates biological energy in the human body. There is the core and the ganglions which are mostly prevalent in the hypogastric area and solar plexus in the lower abdomen and emittes the pulsating energy through the autonomic nervous system and causes expansion and contraction in the body.

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

 Reich said "The basic theory belonged to Freud but I furthered it so much that he himself could not recognize it anymore".

Thank you and I hope I was able to present the content as it is promised in the title of this talk.

On November 17, 2018 an Orgonomy conference was held in Glendale, California titled, "Wilhelm Reich and the Science of Life Energy – Orgonomy".

Dr. Conny Huthsteiner gave welcoming and introductory remarks. She stated:

I want to welcome everybody here. If there is any problem with the sound please let me know. My name is Conny Huthsteiner. I am psychiatrist. I want to welcome you all. I am very happy so many people are interested in coming to hear our conference here today. I want to start thanking people who are central to this organization, the main person being Dr. Simonian, who was the driving force and really made this conference happen in all ways, shapes and forms. And I want to thank our speakers. One has come from Oslo, Norway, and the other has come from the country side near Milan, Italy. I very much appreciate them both taking the time and the trouble to take a long flight to participate. I wanted to just start by saying I had hoped that in some way this conference would be sort of a celebration. Wilhelm Reich is known to most of you in some way. He was an incredibly prolific thinker, writer, inventor and unfortunately tragically died in a terrible situation in a United States prison after his books were burned multiple times. And yet, despite much public disparagement of his work and his character, and many lies about his work, it has persisted.

I was hoping today we would be able to talk about some of the ways we are actually moving his work forward. His work seems to be surviving all the various and sundry developments in multiple fields of science with a great degree of strength. In other words, this man was writing his ideas in the 1920’s, 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, and yet they’re all holding up under scrutiny. As our own concepts in science have advanced since his death in 1957, I can’t think of one idea that he had that is not still legitimate, which I think is extraordinary. I don’t know many thinkers who are able to cut so sharply with a knife conceptually that they get so many things right even with very few tools at his disposal to work with. And so as a consequence I really hope that this conference would be more of a celebration of what he has done and where we see this potentially moving forward in the future. In many ways I feel Reich’s work and life represent the ultimate revolution. And certainly he wrote very famous book, although he effectively never receives credit for that phrase, called "The Sexual Revolution", even though that defined cultures in Europe and United States in an extraordinary way since the 1940’s 50’s and 60’s. I think that’s maybe because he addressed the core issue that all humans grapple with, and that is how to find true love, how to be capable of true deep satisfaction and find love that we all find fulfilling. Now you might obviously ask a question, well how we go from talking about love to talking about atmospheric physics? It does not appear as if there is a logical direct connection between the two, and yet there is; and that’s what’s so remarkable and revolutionary about his thinking. His thinking was able to really introduce revolutions not just in the field of human relationships but also in psychotherapy approaches. In many aspects of healthcare, he has introduced things that could be potentially truly completely altering of our healthcare landscape. He really developed a concept of energy that would allow us to use an unlimited source of energy without destroying our environment through its utilization, which, in of itself, at this time, when we are having so many problems with our energy utilization, it’s obviously of absolute importance. There is also the issue that he had ideas for how actually influence weather events so as to lead to a healing of our atmosphere, and a resetting of our atmosphere to a status that would be still conducive to living here on the planet longer. Ultimately in some ways Reich did toward the end of his life speak more even just about issues of consciousness. Scientist are often put in pigeon holes or pockets, the same with psychologists or psychiatrists, and same with philosophers. One of the things I think he was quite extra ordinary at was spanning so many fields of inquiry, successfully. So, it’s very hard to pigeon hole him in some ways. But as I said at the beginning his life ended pretty tragically, very tragically by anybody’s standards. I think that has left an impact on his legacy. I know in the years following his passing many physicians who worked with him were quite intimidated or frightened about the possibility themselves of coming under professional scrutiny or harassment. I think the question often remains for many people, why would he be so aggressively attacked? And, who would be behind it? What are the factors at play on our planet that would lead to this? I think that has held people back. But as I said, today I was hoping we could try to focus instead more on what he did create and what we could do with it. Will we be able to bring it back into the foreground successfully enough to use it going to the future? I feel it’s our responsibility to try to do that, to try to either teach more about it, influence people in some way, try to show people what he really did. But I realize also, if there is going to be a change happening in human consciousness or in our understandings of science, and the relationship between our emotions and our physical world and our happiness in general, that’s a revolution that’s going to have to happen on its own time. Unfortunately, none of us are going to be able to force it but certainly it’s worth an effort. So, we have kind of mixed program today and we are trying to address some issues of research going on right now. I wanted to show a little bit of a film: "A Man’s Right to Know". It was created by the Wilhelm Reich Museum. It gives a more general biographical history of Reich, maybe more detailed than I’m giving right now. I wanted to also introduce a little bit of our speakers just so people know who they are. Dr. Simonian is a psychiatrist here in Los Angeles. He grew up in Iran and he has translated "The Function of Orgasm" from English into Persian and in that way really came to know some of the fundamentals of Reich’s theories very well. He practices Orgone therapy here in Los Angeles and also has lectured at different conferences about Reich and psychiatry. We have Roberto Maglione is a colleague from Italy. Roberto is quite an interesting person and very sweet person and has an interesting background. He actually is a mining engineer but he got very interested in Reich’s work in the 1990’s and has since written 10 books on Reich which most of them are in Italian but there are four books in English that he has here, all of which I think are very very interesting books and they are for sale out in the lobby. He has worked extensively in the field of weather research but also has studied issues of physical tests and issues that Reich discussed toward the end of his life: the inter play of orgone energy with nuclear material, the "Oranur experiment" as we call it; and also some of Reich’s experiments on biogenesis or the evolution of life. His books are also available out there in the lobby to look at. We also have Havard Neilson from Oslo. He is an associate professor at the Norwegian University in Oslo area. He has a PHD in political science history and also is a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge for several years. He is going to be speaking on the political history of Reich in the period in the interwar years. My name is Conny Huthsteiner I’m a psychiatrist. I can say when I first got interested in Reich I was actually working as a singer and in film. I remember I had enrolled in a theater class. In that theater seminar the leader used some Orgone therapy techniques that were very, very intense. They elicited a lot of emotion in me and I was interested in what he had done. I had known Reich’s name as a child as growing up because my father was a psychiatrist so I basically started doing research into his life. and that was back in 1980. I ended up then enrolling in medical school and became a psychiatrist. So, it’s been a long road getting here but it’s an issue that’s never let me go. In other words, the study of the knowledge that Reich brought forth is that important that I would continue on this path. I’m not sure about everybody’s background in Reich. I have often hoped that we can put together a project in which we can talk about Reich’s major theoretical developments. Although it is hard to get into it right now, he really was the father of body-integrated psychotherapy which is now manifested in many forms, many different schools of body oriented psychotherapy. It’s a psychotherapy form that works much more intensively often than normal talk therapy. Through that work he really came to understand what energy in the body is, and was able to see the connection between the energy in the body and the energy in the atmosphere at large. These are just a few of some of his basic trends of thinking. Maybe I could start the Man’s Right to Know film.

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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
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2:45 pm – 3:00 pm
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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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Orgonomy grew in the womb of psychoanalysis. Dr. Reich considered his work as an extension of Freud’s libido theory. Freud proposed three major psychoanalytic theories:

1. Libido theory (the theory of psychosexual energy).
2. Topographic theory (the theory of the conscious and the unconscious).
3. Structural theory (the theory of the id, ego, and superego).

Freud’s students one by one abandoned the libido theory because of its social, cultural and political consequences and elaborated endlessly on the topographic as well as structural theories. However Reich recognized the significance of libido theory, the theory of energy and further developed this theory in the laboratory and the clinic into the science of orgonomy. Hence orgonomy is an extension of Freud’s libido theory. Dr. Reich himself in the book, Reich Speaks of Freud, states, “Basically, Freud discovered the principle of energy functioning of the psychic apparatus. The energy-functioning principle. This was what distinguished him from all other psychologists. Not so much the discovery of the unconscious. The unconscious, the theory of the unconscious, was to my mind, a consequence of a principle he introduced into psychology. That was the principle, the natural scientific principle, of energy—the ‘libido theory’.” – (Reich, Wilhelm: Reich Speaks of Freud, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967, p. 15).

Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung
Back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi

Reich’s early works were mostly concerned with the treatment of the patients and dealt with their psychological health and illness. In his therapeutic work, Dr. Reich developed two major orgonomic theories, the orgasm theory and the theory of emotional and physical armoring. His clinical experience brought to light the significance of a proper metabolism of sexual energy in the human organism, which Dr. Reich called “sex economy”. In his book The Function of Orgasm, (Reich, Wilhelm: The Function of Orgasm, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973 p. 5). Dr. Reich states, “Sex-economy is a natural scientific discipline. It is not ashamed of the subject of sexuality, and it rejects as its representative everyone who has not overcome the inculcated social fear of sexual defamation.” In the same book (p. 3) Reich writes, “The subject of ‘sexuality’ virtually cuts through all scientific fields of research. In its central phenomenon, the sexual orgasm, we meet the questions deriving from the field of psychology as well as from the physiology, from the field of biology no less than from that of sociology. Natural science offers hardly another field of research that is so well equipped to exhibit the fundamental unity of everything that lives and to guard against narrow, fragmentizing specialization. Sex-economy became an independent discipline having its own method of research and its own body of knowledge. It is a natural scientific, empirically founded theory of sexuality.”

Reich during the First Orgonomic Conference, Orgonon, August 1948

Orgonomy, by virtue of dealing with orgone energy, the life energy, touches many aspects of our lives. In addition to psychology and medicine it has branches in sociology, biology, and orgone physics. It is crucial that orgonomic knowledge be understood and that this knowledge be available for the public. We believe that this knowledge, if properly applied, has great potential to help human beings evolve toward a humanity worthy of the name, in touch with their innermost core and able to feel and to love. As a small step toward these ends, the Institute for Orgonomic Science is planning a series of conferences, and one such conference is being planned for the Los Angeles area.

The Institute for Orgonomic Science (IOS) has prepared the following questionnaire that we ask our interested readers to take few minutes to respond to, to help us prepare for this conference.

Dear Interested Reader,

The Institute for Orgonomic Science (IOS) is an organization that is dedicated to the science of orgonomy and the work of Wilhelm Reich. The IOS is planning a three-day conference on different aspects of orgonomy to be held in the Fall of 2016 in the Los Angeles, CA area. This conference will feature presentations by an international group of researchers on different aspects of orgonomy. Included will be presentations on Reich’s sociological concepts; on medical and psychiatric aspects of orgonomy such as psychiatric orgone therapy, and on work in the natural sciences such as the bion experiments, orgone physics and weather engineering. The fee for attending the conference is estimated to be $190 for the entire three-day conference or one-day participation on a particular topic for $90. If you are interested in attending in such a conference please click HERE and express your interest in attendance. Please also let us know which of the above-mentioned topics you are most interested in, or if you would like to see presentations on other orgonomy-related topics. This information will help the organizers decide about the program and venue, etc. We will send you further information when the details of the conference are worked out.

Thank you for your help in this matter.