The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich

During this time, Reich published The Mass Psychology of Fascism and Character Analysis. With Hitler’s rise to power, Reich fled to Denmark and was expelled from the German communist party in 1933. He established the Socialist Society of Sexual Advice and Sexual Research in 1928, and when he moved to Berlin in 1930, he created the German Association for a Proletarian Sexual Policy (shortened to SEXPOL). Reich taught psychoanalytic seminars in Vienna from 1922–1930 and worked as a psychoanalyst specializing in sex counseling. Reich was invited to become a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1920, and he earned his medical degree in 1922. During this time, Reich met and became a student of Freud’s and eventually worked as an assistant in Freud’s clinical practice. Reich entered medical school in 1918 and began to explore the works of Sigmund Freud while at the University of Vienna. Reich fled his home and joined the Austrian Army in 1915. In 1914, Reich’s father died from tuberculosis and the first World War began. He blamed himself for her suicide for many years.Īfter the death of his mother, Reich's father sent him to an all-boys gymnasium-a school that focuses on secondary instruction. Reich wrote about being aware of the affair and how it had impacted him with feelings of shame, jealousy, and anger, and a struggle over whether to protect his mother or share her indiscretions with his father. Reich was homeschooled by tutors until 1910, when his mother committed suicide after her brief affair with one of the tutors had been discovered by Reich’s father.

Reich grew up on a cattle farm run by his father in a region known as Bukovina. Wilhelm Reich was born March 27, 1897, in Dobrzcynica, Galicia, which was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Wilhelm Reich was an early 20th century psychoanalyst known for his controversial and often radical ideas. How to Send Appointment Reminders that Work.Rules and Ethics of Online Therapy for Therapists.Practice Management Software for Therapists.

The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich