He then greatly refined his investigations, examining single items under his microscope, starting with blades of grass and getting down to such well-known soup ingredients as iron filings or sea-sand which he heated to red heat before plunging them into water or potassium chloride. Turner ignores Reich’s reports of his experiments, which enable modern workers to repeat his experiments, as he ignores so many other items which would embarass his theory. There are several researchers dotted about the world who have repeated, confirmed, and developed Reich’s findings in this realm. Most of them are in the USA, where Turner spent a good deal of time while writing this book. Yet again, he took good care not to speak to any of us. He does not cite a single authentic experimental finding in support of his case. He does quote the one example of the FDA’s poor efforts at replicating Reich’s medical tests with the orgone shooter, a device that allows the user to direct orgone energy to a small area. In this test an orgone-accumulating tube was used to treat vaginal infections of trichomonas vaginalis. The tests showed the shooter to be effective, but the FDA’s testers explained this away as caused by the cooling effect of the glass tube that was used. Turner does not take the FDA to task for their slapdash testing and failure to observe basic atmospheric precautions, as prescribed by Reich, but accepts this dismissal at face value.

He accepts another dismissal of Reich’s findings which is completley preposterous and mendacious, but Turner’s knowledge of Reich’s actual work, as opposed to his own imagined version of it, is so shallow and limited that he does not even realise this dismissal is completley erroneous and concocted. Reich was the first to observe what he named T-bacilli. The T stands for the German Tod, which means death. He observed them in cancer tumours and in the blood of patients suffering from the cancer biopathy. One of the FDA’s assessors dismissed this finding of Reich’s as a misinterpretation of the natural crenation of the red blood cells. You can see this process easily at a magnification of 400-600x. You need a magnification of 5000x to see the T-bacilli. Turner doesn’t even notice this clanger, as his knowledge doesn’t stretch to these details of Reich’s findings. You don’t need to be a trained medical orgonomist to know this much. A single careful reading of The Cancer Biopathy or even an observant perusal of the photomicrographs at the end of the book would show you this information, too.

While ignoring work actually being done in the field in the present, Turner manages to conjure up an imagined historical connection with naturism. He includes amongst the illustrations a photo of naked women dancing in a ring in a field. These women were, according to Turner’s caption, part of the socialist body culture school run by Adolph Koch. Koch does not appear in the index or the text and the picture is clearly included to egg up Turner’s image of Reich and his work. These women have nothing whatsoever to do with Reich and his work. It is surprising that Turner’s publisher’s, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let him get away with such slipshod work. What a paradox that they have published this hatchet job on Reich when their late founder, Roger Straus, was responsible for keeping Reich’s books in print after they had been burnt by legal injunction after his trial in 1956. He was so outraged by this act of censorship that he committed his firm to keeping Reich’s books in print and they have remained available to this day, albeit now mostly in print-on-demand format.

About half-way through the book it suddenly dawned on me what Turner’s position is. It is that of the malicious gossip. He loves reporting other people’s nasty words about Reich, about almost anyone in fact. He quotes about five times as many negative comments on Reich as he does positive ones.

With what relish he quotes the damning list of Reich’s crimes compiled after his death later in her life by his last partner, Aurora Karrer. Earlier information about Karrer, quoted by Turner, shows that she was mystically besotted with Reich and the opposite extreme of besotted mystical worship, to which all mystics swing in the end, is a raging, disillusioned urge to destroy the object of one’s worship, the cycle we see the tabloids go through with celebrities that they build up only to bring them to their knees.

Turner obviously wants to be taken as a serious cultural theorist. To prove his point at the end of the book he cites Huxley’s Brave New World to prove that more ‘sexual liberation’ means more political passivity and conformity. He could just as well have cited Orwell’s 1984 and the Party’s plan to abolish the orgasm. Amazingly, he has already cited the quotation where Julia describes this aim, in order to rubbish Orwell for the thought crime of swallowing Reich’s theories. But maybe he had forgotten that by the time he had got to the last page. To quote Huxley’s story as evidence shows us how shallow and thoughtless Turner’s book is. He does not seem to realise that he is quoting a work of imaginative literature and you can find a novel or a character in a novel to prove anything. If depth of feeling and sense of contact with the world is anything to go by, Orwell’s Julia is far closer to life, far more convincing, than the cynically promiscuous characters of Brave New World, the young people that we apparently have today, as described clearly and horrifyingly in Natasha Walter’s recent book, Living Dolls.

Posted 7. 12. 11

"Obviously the nuclear theory and the vortex theory cannot both be true. Since the proponents of the nuclear theory have already presented their theory to the public boldly as though it were a known fact, it is all the more incumbent upon the author to present his vortex theory modestly as a mere hypothesis. But even with this modest interpretation, it has been persistently denied recognition by the accredited scientific magazines. The author has tried long and patiently to obtain publication of it through the usual channels in order that the public might acquire free use of the same, but without success. It is of course conceded that our scientific magazines have the right to accept or reject any theory according to their best judgement, but they do not have the right to present their highly speculative and unproved nuclear theory to the public in a tone of absolute certainty, as though the existence of the atomic nucleus were a known fact. The public is ennoscriptd to correct information as to what is mere theory and what is fact. The dogmatic manner in which nuclear theory is being thrust upon the public by our "highly ethical" scientific magazines is neither scientific nor ethical. It is typical of the sort of pseudo-science which usually prevails wherever there is "no conflict" between science and religion."
—Carl Frederick Krafft, Mechanistic Autonomy of Nature, 1937 supplement pp128-9

https://www.velikovsky.info/
The Immanuel Velikovsky Encyclopedia is about the author, Immanuel Velikovsky, and the people and controversy that has resulted from his works. It does not set out to judge whether Velikovsky and his critics were right or wrong, but to document with sources, who said what, and why, and where, and when. There is no doubt that some scientists have labeled some of Velikovsky’s work, pseudoscience or worse, but also others who have acknowledged that Velikovsky made predictions that have turned out to be correct.

Electromagnetism & Life
Drs Robert O. Becker and Andrew Marino (full book pdf)
http://www.rebprotocol.net/November2007/Robert%20O.%20Becker%20and%20Andrew%20A.%20Marino%201982%20Electromagnetism%20and%20life%20156pp.pdf

The Body Electric
Seminal classic by Robert O. Becker, MD (full book pdf)
http://www.microondes.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/becker_the_body_electric-full.pdf

The Body Electric
Seminal classic by Robert O. Becker, MD (full book pdf)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150327030410/https://microondes.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/becker_the_body_electric-full.pdf

https://media.blubrry.com/adifferentkindofpsychiatry/s/content.blubrry.com/adifferentkindofpsychiatry/S3E12_May_Webinar_Teen_Rage_Bosworth.mp3

Handling a Teenager’s Rage in Therapy
June 29, 2022
Categories
medication, orgonomy, psychiatry, psychology, relationships, therapy
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anger, children, emotions, orgonomy, parenting, psychiatry, psychotherapy, rage, relationships, therapy, adifferentkindofpsychiatry

This episode features the audio from one of the ACO case presentation series webinars. Jackie Bosworth, M.D. tells Dr. Burritt about her adolescent patient Drew who lived in a residential treatment facility for children at risk. She had great difficulty managing her anger and frustration and attacked anyone who got in her way. Listen in to hear how Dr. Bosworth was able to connect with Drew and provide relief for this teenager’s pent-up emotions. The doctors also respond to audience questions about self-harm and managing children who need healthy outlets for their anger.
https://adifferentkindofpsychiatry.blubrry.net/