Character analysis
by Wilhelm Reich · first published 1972
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on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗> If everyone needs therapy, it’s society that’s wrong. This. Pioneering psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, father of character analysis made a similar claim. He was pilloried for suggesting that we should focus on prevention of mental illness over treatment. To do this he said that we should radically reorient our societies so that they…
on “Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks” ↗…journals and papers were burned in New York, at the Gansevoort incinerator, a public incinerator on 25th Street. The material included copies of several of his books, including The Sexual Revolution, Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Although these had been published in German before Reich ever discussed orgone, he had added mention of it to the English editions, so they were caught by the injunction.…
on “Wilhelm Reich on Pleasure and the Genesis of Anxiety (2021)” ↗…rather than just treat it. Even today the idea of reforming society to prevent mental illness is hugely controversial. They burned his books, including "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" and his seminal "Character Analysis" in what has been called one of the worst instances of book burning in US history at the time. Looks like the burning times are back, eh? He was jailed for refusing not to proselytize the Orgone box,…
on “Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks” ↗…individual instead?) will expose the status quo in psychology as simply a way to maintain exactly that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychol... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Analysis
on “America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?” ↗