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50 years after death, Wilhelm Reich’s sex theories still controversial

November 19, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Austrian and American psychiatrist, scientist and free thinker Wilhelm Reich, who died 50 years ago this month, continues to stir debate and controversy.

Reich, born to a prosperous farming and ranching Jewish family in Galicia 1897, died Nov. 3, 1957, in a U.S. jail, a year after the U.S. government literally axed his “orgone accumulator” machines and boxes and burned his research in a chilling echo of the Nazis he fled in the 1930s. (more…)

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November Jewish deaths (Pt. 1): Rabin, Kern, Capp, Kahane

November 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment

November 1

Michael Piller, 57, U.S., writer, TV producer (“Star Trek”), 2005.

November 2

Irwin Allen, 75, U.S., film/TV producer (“The Poseidon Adventure”), 1991.

November 3

Wilhelm Reich, 60, Austria, U.S., psychologist, 1957.

Bob Kane, 83, U.S., cartoonist (“Batman”), 1998.

Stanley Rothenberg, 76, U.S., lawyer, 2006. (more…)

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