Reichism

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noun

The philosophy or beliefs of controversial Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich.

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nounReichism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe philosophy or beliefs of controversial Austrian psychologist Wilhelm Reich.

    First, there was Trotskyism - political Communism - and immediately after that - political psychological Reichism.

    1998, Chaim Shur, Shomrim in the Land of Apartheid: The Story of Hashomer Hatzair in South Africa 1935-1970
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    I include in this group particularly the writers, Erich Fromm (1941, 1947, 1956, 1962), Theodor Adomo and Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1950), none of whom has championed Reichism.

    1973, Paul L. Adams, Obsessive children: a sociopsychiatric study, page 23

    In the mid-1960s, Reichism was midwifed into reexistence by such stalwarts as William Schutz, Bernard Gunther, Charlotte Selver, Alexander Lowen, Ida Rolf, and many other exponents of human knead needs.

    2013, Jon Carlson, William Knaus, Albert Ellis Revisited, →ISBN, page 288

    As Edward Shils commented, “If there's a bad idea out there—Trotskyism, Reichism, Steinerism—leave it to our friend Saul to swallow it.”

    2013, Gloria L. Cronin, Lee Trepanier, A Political Companion to Saul Bellow, →ISBN, page 9

Origin

From Reich + -ism.

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