Relating to the psychotherapeutic theories of Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), who theorized that sexual repression is the source of all human neuroses and irrational behavior.
he also taught me a kind of Reichian emotional release work, banging pillows and screaming at the top of my lungs
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- The technique greatly increases the thoroughness and ease of the Reichian techniques and adds other psychological improvements.
- As an adult recovering from a breakdown and aided by a Reichian analysis that ‘rebirthed ‘him, he discovered that eclecticism and openness were the way forward.’