excerpt from
Progress in the Juvenile Justice System
Article by Dorothy D. Burlage PhD

Wilhelm Reich strongly advocated emotional contact between children and caring, loving adults, recognizing the deep psychological damage that results without that closeness. Reich’s colleague, the highly respected educator, A. S. Neill, established the Summerhill School, basing it on the assumption that children, including children with behavioral problems, should be nourished rather than punished, and certainly not isolated socially or physically.

For many years, the American prison system has contradicted these principles by putting juveniles in solitary confinement. This practice has been labelled “torture” by human rights organizations. Numerous studies have found that solitary confinement causes serious psychological damage and physicians document negative medical consequences as well.

Image: Wilhelm Reich escorted to prison, March 1957

https://www.psychorgone.com/sociology/progress-in-the-juvenile-justice-system

Dr. Theodore P. Wolfe

“Real” life began for Dr. Wolfe with his work with Dr. Reich. He would describe how everything he read, saw, heard, and felt changed in quality; and the vague impatient emptiness (he had previously experienced) began, with a great anxiety to be filled up. A bond of gratefulness to Reich stemmed from that deepest core of himself which Reich had made accessible to him. And he loved Reich, as Neill and Roknes and other old associates loved him.

In the course of his visit, Wolfe suggested that Reich move to America, where he could find a more congenial atmosphere. Exhausted by Oslo’s situation, fearing the outbreak of a disastrous war in Europe, attracted to settling in America ever since 1933, Reich leaped at the idea. Furthermore, Wolfe now offered to help facilitate the move.

from
Dr. Reich’s Arrival to the United States
Article by Stephan Simonian M.D.
23 November, 2010.
https://www.psychorgone.com/history/dr-reichs-arrival-to-the-united-states

Dr. Philip W. Bennett Biography:

Philip W. Bennett earned a PhD from New York University in the early 1970s and was a professor of philosophy for many years after. He is now retired from academic life and finishing a book on Reich's social and political work ennoscriptd From Communism to Work Democracy.

His article, “Wilhelm Reich’s Early Writings on Work Democracy: A Theoretical Basis for Challenging Fascism Then and Now,” appears in the current issue of Capitalism. Nature. Socialism. (March, 2010). His article, “The Persecution of the Dr. Wilhelm Reich by the Government of the United States,” appeared in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, earlier this year (Vol 19, #1, 2010).

His article, “Double-Blind Controlled Experiments and the Orgone Energy Accumulator,” appears in the Annals of the Institute of Orgonomic Science.

https://www.psychorgone.com/history/from-psychoanalysis-to-vegetotherapy
excerpted from
From Psychoanalysis to Vegetotherapy
Article by Phillip W. Bennett PhD
16 November 2011.