Reich - Listen Little Man!
50 years ago next week Wilhelm Reich died in prison in the USA. His 'crime' was to sell Orgone accumulators without a licence from the FDA (who then burnt his books - written by a man who had spent 30 years fighting fascism!).
Reich thought that Orgone rays - life-giving energy that lives in the atmosphere - could reverse cancer and other illnesses. Whether you believe that or not you don't put a man in prison for thinking it. No wonder Reich died paranoid.
Wilhelm Reich, along with Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson, is one of the grandfathers of Reverse Therapy. He was the first ever therapist to use body work. He saw that emotional, sexual and wave energy was held in the body waiting to be expressed. People became neurotic and exhausted through the effort of repressing these energies. Like us, Reich worked in the present, not the
past, looking at how the individual is blocking energy right now. And
encouraging them to feel something before expressing 
and acting on it.
Transformation - according to Reverse Therapy and Reich - comes about when we teach clients how to release that energy constructively. Failure to connect to and release emotion led straight to what Reich called 'the emotional plague' - a state in which the energy turns poisonous and is expressed through cruelty, lust, anxiety and rage. In Reverse Therapy we follow Reich in aiming at the expression of energy through love, truth and the pursuit of personal fulfillment.
Reich taught people how to break their chains and his reward - as he predicted in The Murder of Christ and Listen Little Man - was to be locked up by people who were in the grip of the emotional plague.
"The Little Man does not
want to hear the truth about himself. He does not want the great
responsibility which is his. He wants to remain a Little Man. He wants
to remain a Little Man, or wants to become a little great man."
"You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of "socialism," "the state," "national honor," or "the glory of God."
Wilhelm Reich 1897-1957
