Character analysis

Title Character analysis
Original title Charakteranalyse
Author Wilhelm Reich; newly transl. by Vincent R. Carfagno
Publication Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Size XXVII, 545p
Language ENG ENG
ISBN 9780374509804
Topics Psychoanalysis
Sex (Psychology)
Notes 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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