The Freakiest Psychologist You’ve Never Heard Of (It’s Not Freud!)

Ben Thomas
9 min readJan 15, 2022
Reich was the father of the sexual revolution

The early days of psychoanalysis are often imagined as a deeply sexual, dark and taboo period in the study of psychology. Many may look at Freud’s obsession with mother loving for example. However, one character remains fairly unknown despite the fact that he is likely the freakiest psychoanalyst in the history of the field: Wilhelm Reich.

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