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- Died
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Famous and controversial scientist/psychotherapist who founded the science of orgonomy, the study of life essence. This school of study had a wide array of principles ranging from the belief that the human muscular structure was directly affected by negative emotional stimuli, to a concept that human life essence, if properley harnessed, could accomplish such tasks as manipulating the weather and curing disease. Reich desisgned several large, booth-shaped machines made from organic marerials and laced with various pipes and metallic objects to assist in this process. After several years of this study, he was finally convicted for practicing fraudulent medicine and was sentenced to prison in Pennsylvania, where he would eventually die of a heart attack in 1957.
Although contemporary science still largely does not accept Reich's basic theories as scientific fact, his studies have been the basis and inspiration for several fields of medicine and therapy today, and many conspiracy buffs believe that Dr. Reich's studies were more accurate then the U.S. government wishes us to believe.
- IMDb mini biography by: jimbosil
- Was the subject of at least 2 songs, both told from the point of view of his son Peter: Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting" and Patti Smith's "Birdland".
- Believed in UFOs.
- The Orgasm has had an unfair amount of pressure put on it by Society.
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