Aurora Karrer Reich collection, 1938-1986.

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Aurora Karrer Reich collection, 1938-1986.

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Collection of Reich-related papers, mostly created by Aurora Karrer or related to Reich's term of imprisonment. Contains correspondence between Aurora Karrer Reich and relatives, legal representatives, and Wilhelm Reich's family members and acolytes; notes by Mrs. Reich about her life with Dr. Reich; printed copies of court briefs and statements; books written by Dr. Reich and serial publications produced by the Orgone Institute.

7.98 linear feet (8 boxes).

National Library of Medicine

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SNAC Resource ID: 7526915

National Library of Medicine

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Orgone Institute (Rangeley, Me.)

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The Orgone Institute was founded in 1942 by Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (Vienna, M.D. 1922), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1939. First living in New York and later in Maine, he developed a therapy outside accepted psychoanalytic techniques. Reich posited the orgone as a biological base of psychic energy which in neurosis becomes dammed up somatically as well as mentally and can be released only through a combined physical and psychological therapy. His approach is re...

Reich, Wilhelm, 1897-1957

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Psychologist and biophysicist. From the description of Wilhelm Reich papers, 1920-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984308 ...

Reich, Aurora Karrer.

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Aurora Karrer Reich, born in 1924, met Wilhelm Reich while attending a conference at the Orgone Institute during the summer of 1955. Later that year she entered into a common-law marriage with Dr. Reich and subsequently gave up her position as a medical technician at the National Institutes of Health. Intentions to formalize their union remained unfulfilled upon Dr. Reich's death in November, 1957. From the description of Aurora Karrer Reich collection, 1938-1986. (National Library o...