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Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933

As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wihelm Reich expanded psychoanalytic resistance into the more inclusive technique of character analysis, in which the sum total of typical character attitudes developed by an individual as a blocking against emotional excitations became the object of treatment. These encrusted attitudes functioned as an "armor," which Reich later found to exist simultaneously in chronic muscular spasms. Thus mind and body came together and character analysis opened the way to a biophysical approach to disease and the prevention of it.

"It is clear that a prophylaxis of neuroses is out of the question unless it is prepared theoretically; in short, that the study of the dynamic and economic conditions of human structures is its most important prerequisite."

~Wilhelm Reich

Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Paperback : 576 pages
ISBN-10 : 0374509808
ISBN-13 : 978-0374509804
Dimensions : 5.45 x 1.55 x 7.94 inches
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 3rd Ed., Enlarged (Nov 1, 1980)
Language : English