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THE FREAKIEST PSYCHOLOGIST OF ALL TIME

Sisyphus 55 | November 11, 2025



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SOURCES:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/08/wilhelm-reich-free-love-orgasmatron

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/17/wilhelm-reich-the-strange-prescient-sexologist-who-sought-to-set-us-free

https://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/wilhelm-reich.html

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-wilhelm-reich/

Written by Sisyphus 55

Comments

This post currently has 43 comments.

  1. @mh1970

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    You guys have no idea how deep this rabbit hole is for me. I saw some weirdos on YouTube making orgone generators out of copper and crystals. My curiosity made me wanna know how this nonsense came about now here I am. Watching a video about some psychologist from the 30s.

  8. @williambeasley2084

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    hes definitely pretty crazy. if it was life energy he discovered, he should have showed it a lot more reverence than he did. even if his research had some validity, him being the one that found it would make it all look extremely suspicious.

  10. @ThirdEchelonAgent

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    The sexual deviants like Freud, Reich, and john money, were the pioneers of a lot of the modern ideals and beliefs some people have today, weird "coincidence" between the three amirite?

  12. @shainetertained7825

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    I did not know any of these things about Willhelm Reich. The documentary on YouTube here is slanted and described some of these instances in a much different way. The alternative perspective is helpful and interesting however also villainizes him although I agree that some of the accusations are alarming. I'd like to put out there that it's possible some of these things are smears on him and perhaps the opposite may also be similtaneously true in the good things as well. What I will also add to this is that to me the fact that it's even mentioned and documented that he had to destroy his equipment and books is proof without a doubt that he was onto something. Many of his theories and things like orgone accumulators etc. Posed legitimate threats to the allopathic medical mafia newly forming in north america. Your accounting of his death I believe is false as well. He was killed in prison, beaten to death by the inmates and died from blunt force trauma, which they claimed he died of heart failure.

  14. @mirandapj973

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    Hi, I have read through all 4 of the articles you have listed here as your sources and I can not understand how this video resulted from them. You have clearly read from sources not put forward and I was wondering if you could also provide them, as I have been unable to substantiate their claims. Thank you.

  15. @peternyc

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    What an ignorant person Sisyphus 55 must be. The thinkers and artists of the early 20th century were so forward thinking. Just look at the comments below. Small minded people. You all deserve to live today. You are home.

  18. @Joepage69

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    This, YouTube video is a testament to the importance of speaking in plain wording.

    You should never lose the meaning through the elegance of expression.

    In other word it’s important just to say what you mean.

    Don’t lose what you mean trying to sound fancy .

  27. @boiboi6847

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    I feel like I could convince someone on instagram to read his works very easily. I just have to claim that there's some divine sexual energy and that we just need to tap in to heal ourselves.

  28. @charlesastle2077

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    history is written that pleases what powers that be. he was right about so much but when he pointed cloud busters at the sky he was warning really about secret atomic bomb testing and radioactive fallout cold fusion electric universe are not funded and what is funded defends with righteousness their grants and their are reasons that people die in jail. whoever he was his writings are Brillant and came from clinical experience with patients not theories that seemed true like what orbits what the sun or earth. and that last astronomer was burned alive . for a thought not even actual witchcraft or religious tones. thank first about what you label and know the winner writes history . the dead have no voice the Gnostics true Christians were killed by other Christians every last one. and then ask how brave was the man who tried to end sexual shame or repression not for thrills but because it males people crazy and aggressive. and maybe the government wants that more soldiers and the trains will run on time and immigrants will be just meat an love is gone left the sermons and every one is alone and without value unless the morality or color doesn't dance better or jump higher. damn if you cant love your enemy your going to be a killer.

  29. @Pootycat8359

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    Interesting! I was very much aware of Reich's "orgone" experiments, and his persecution by the FDA. I didn't know what a strange bird he was, though. Incidentally, he didn't "discover" orgone: He RE-discovered it. It's the same thing the ancient Indians called "prana," the Chinese, "chi," Anton Mesmer, "animal magnetism," and Karl von Reichenbach, "od." Modern-day occultists simply call it, the "astral fluid."

  30. @gc7304

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    This video is full of personal, biased comments. Probably it is prepared with few superficial work. It has no depth and only focused on falsification of Reich.
    It'll unfortunately make people get prejudice and miss so many important work Reich presented.
    While Freud and many other analysts chasing dreams, day dreams and similar intangible data, Reich was looking for ways of finding tangible, concrete data by using scientific modern medicine because he's the only analyst with a medicine doctor background.

  33. @claykline2830

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    If you read any Reich you will see him more of a tragic figure and a very wholesome one in his later life. Most forms of body and breathing therapy come from him. Visiting his institute was a very great experience. Many patients were real happy with him and a lot of his political writings remain real influential still. I think his slander from the press tarnished any sort of positive image of him. Reading anything by him shows a very careful and compassionate man. Yes he was very blunt and obsessed with sex. But the experiments were to help cure people , and yes to an obscure degree.They made him tense with opposition from the government and fascists and psychoanalysts throughout his life.

  36. @KNKLDK

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    The way the story is presented appears to be totally biased. What I read about Wilhelm Reich and the way it is projected is completely different. Unless i make an effort to read a lot of existing literature, I cannot say with 100% conviction that what is portrayed in this video is wrong. Hence I only suggest those who are watching this video to watch one other video https://youtu.be/xCE0OgolJEs and decide for themselves what could have been the right version of history. I only request those who make an attempt to talk about a person's life, to atleast provide appropriate references to validate what they present. And the references you have used are normal articles and not even one systematically valid source is referred. Coming to a conclusion with such unauthentic content is wrong on the part of this video maker.

  42. @iankenney6602

    November 11, 2025 at 6:07 am

    You can feel the oblivious, brainwashed fear to the idea of having to face ourselves fully and honestly in the active and desperate shunning of this man. What if society has been the insane one, and this man's findings–which seem to certainly be painted in a negative light–has the power to free the reader from the grip of thousands of years of unconcious programmed bias. Read his books if you truly want to understand the man's work and effectiveness for yourself.

    Does the reader often feel generally anxious? If so, I would bet that Reich scares you, because he holds the cure and key to freedom you both crave and are programmed to deny.

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