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Character Analysis

By Wilhelm Reich; Vincent R. Carfagno

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Year
1980
ISBN
0374509808, 9780374509804
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7197484 bytes)
Edition
3rd Enlarged Edition
Pages
576\578
Time added
2019-07-10 09:26:19

Description

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.

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