Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst and social philosopher
1897, Dobzau, Galicia (Austria-Hungary) — 1957, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Austria · Germany · United States
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Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher, an early associate of Freud, who linked psychology to social and political theory in works such as 'The Mass Psychology of Fascism' and 'Character Analysis'. His later 'orgone' theories were rejected by science, and he died in a U.S. prison. He was born into a secular Jewish family in Galicia.
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Psychoanalyst and social philosopher
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