Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

writer
physician
psychiatrist
psychologist
Austria–Hungary
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Freudo-Marxism
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Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.

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Lifespan
1897 – 1957
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Born in
Dobrianychi
Educated at
University of Vienna
Doctoral Advisors
🎓 Julius Wagner-Jauregg

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