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

Posted on November 19, 2007 by balev

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” [...]

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

Posted on November 14, 2007 by balev

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.

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