Me and the Orgone

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Me and the Orgone – The True Story of One Man's Sexual Awakening is an autobiographical account written by American actor and award-winning director Orson Bean about his life-changing experience with the controversial orgone therapy developed by Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

The book tells how, after ten years of unsuccessful psychotherapy, Orson Bean discovers medical orgone therapy, a therapeutic intervention than focuses on renewing the energy flows within the patient, orgone being Wilhelm Reich's name for the "life energy". It is a strongly personal account of a man who gets a second chance which few get at a personal sexual revolution, feeling his body beginning to change, feeling freer and more alive, and also seeing his relationships transformed. It is also a rare personal testimony of the actual effects which this form of therapy is said to be able to facilitate.

The book includes a foreword by Scottish educator A. S. Neill.

It also contains information on the famous Fifteenth Street School in New York City where Dr. Reich's concepts were applied to childhood education