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Peter Robbins | Wilhelm Reich, Orgone Energy, & UFOs
Sigmund Freud, Sexual Dysfunction and the Schism in Psychoanalysis
Wilhelm Reich served as Sigmund Freud's primary assistant for six years before the two parted ways in 1929. The split occurred when Reich proposed that all human neuroses were rooted in sexual dysfunction, a claim Freud found too extreme for Victorian Vienna. Following his departure, colleagues within the Freudian circle began a campaign to label Reich as mentally unstable to protect the institution of psychoanalysis.