Neo-Reichian massage

Neo-Reichian massage or release is a system based on theories developed by Wilhelm Reich. Practitioners locate and dissolve "body armoring" (also called "holding patterns"). Reich theorized that obstructions to orgone energy cause neuroses and most physical disorders. Muscular contractions (body armor) in various parts of the body manifest such blockages.

In addition to strict Neo-Reichians, the work has provided the basis for further explorations both in the areas of Somatic Psychology and postural body therapies such as Rolfing and Postural Integration (PI).

Wilhelm Reich

Ideas	Orgastic potency Character analysis Vegetotherapy Freudo-Marxism Orgone energy

Works	"Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation" (1922) Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis (1927) Character Analysis (1933) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Sexual Revolution (1936) The Function of the Orgasm (1942) Listen, Little Man! (1942)

Related	American College of Orgonomy Bioenergetic analysis Body psychotherapy Gestalt therapy Neo-Reichian massage Orgonon, museum and burial site Primal therapy Sexology

Influenced	Orson Bean Saul Bellow James Bevel Norman O. Brown William Burroughs Gilles Deleuze Paul Edwards Allen Ginsberg Paul Goodman Arthur Janov Jack Kerouac Alexander Lowen Norman Mailer A. S. Neill Fritz Perls Ola Raknes Isaac Rosenfeld J. D. Salinger William Steig Robert Anton Wilson

Biographers	Robert S. Corrington (2003) Charles Rycroft (1971) Myron Sharaf (1983) Christopher Turner (2011)

Literature, pop culture	The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich (1947) W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) Me and the Orgone (1971) Cloudbusting (1985) Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) The All Souls' Waiting Room (2002)

Templates, categories	Category:Orgone energy Category:Psychoanalysis Template:Psychoanalysis Category:Wilhelm Reich

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