![]() His writing influenced generations of intellectuals he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife. Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour-the expression of the personality in the way the body moves-shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. ![]() ![]() Wilhelm Reich ( / r aɪ x/ RYKHE, German: 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. ![]()
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