Post-Primal and Genital Character: a Critique of Janov and Reich

Baker, E. Man in the trap. New York: Macmillan, 1967. A systematic presentation of the most orthodox neo-Reichian position by Reich's principal disciple operating in medical orgone therapy.

Bean, O. Me and the orgone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971. A humorous and effective description of the author's experience undergoing Baker's application of Reich's techniques.

Boadella, D. On doctrinaire movements Energy and Character , 1971, 2 (1). Abbotsbury Publications, Dorset, England. An analysis of doctrinaire, defensive, and often petty behavior of some of Reich's disciples.

Janov, A. The primal scream: The cure for neurosis. New York : Putnam, 1970.

Kelley, C. Orgonomy since the death of Reich The Creative Process , 1965, 5. Interscience Work Shop, Santa Monica, California. Describes in detail the accomplishment and the deterioration of the Reichian movement after Reich's death.

Kelley, C. Education in feeling and purpose. Santa Monica, Calif. , 1970. Discusses the origin of muscular armoring in terms of man's newly evolving capacity for purpose and describes a program for expanding the capacity of students for both feeling and purpose. Neo-Reichian emotional release and confrontation-type encounter techniques are each employed in an educational rather than therapeutic context.

Raphael, C. , Gold, P. , & Oller, C. Wilhelm Reich, misconstrued, misesteemed. New York : Wilhelm Reich Institute for Orgonomic Studies , 1970. A criticism of Baker's Man in the Trap by the leader of a second faction of Reich's disciples among the medical orgone therapists.

Reich, W. The function of the orgasm: The discovery of the orgone. (2nd ed.) (2nd ed.) New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1961-a. The fundamental work on Reichian therapy. Describes the development of "vegetotherapy" in the 30s, the theory, application and effects of Reich's techniques. Describes Reich's concept of the genital character.

Reich, W. Character Analysis. (3rded.) New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1961. (b) Published originally in the mid-30s, describes the evolution of Reich's emotional release techniques from their roots in psychoanalysis to their maturity in orgone therapy. See especially Chapter 15, "The Expressive Language of the Living in Orgone Therapy."

Reich, W. Listen little man. New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1948. Primarily an expression of protest by Reich against disturbing and unwarranted attacks on his works, and a criticism of armored man.

Reich, W. The source of the human No! Orgonomic Medicine , 1955, 1 (2). Selections from an interview with Reich, the main point of which is the necessity for working to prevent neurosis in infants and children rather than working therapeutically with adults.

Szasz, T. The myth of mental illness. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. The most significant and far-reaching criticism of the medical model as it is applied to psychiatric patients.