Me and the Orgone

Me and the Orgone – The True Story of One Man's Sexual Awakening
Author	Orson Bean
Cover artist	Annette Orban
Language	English
Subject	Psychology
Publisher	orig. Fawcett Crest Greenwich, republished ACO Press
Publication date	orig. 1971, republished 2000
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	0-9679670-1-5
OCLC	48816147
LC Class	RZ460 .B43 2000

Me and the Orgone – The True Story of One Man's Sexual Awakening (1971) is an autobiographical account written by American actor Orson Bean about his life-changing experience with the controversial orgone therapy developed by Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

The book tells how, after ten years of unsuccessful psychotherapy, Bean discovers medical orgone therapy, a therapeutic intervention that focuses on renewing what it describes as "energy flows" within the patient, orgone being Wilhelm Reich's name for the "life energy". It is a strongly personal account of a man who gets a second chance at a personal sexual revolution, feeling his body beginning to change, feeling freer and more alive, and also seeing his relationships transformed.

The book includes a foreword by Scottish educator A. S. Neill.

It also contains information on the former Fifteenth Street School in New York City where Dr. Reich's concepts were applied to childhood education.

According to a review in Time, Bean's account is "clear and balanced", discussing Reich's "final tragic swerve toward insanity" even as it "over-insists ... his greatness."^[1] Me and the Orgone has been cited in several books on the topic of orgone energy, including Charles R. Kelley's Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature and investigative journalist Mary Coddington's Seekers of the Healing Energy, in which she described Me and the Orgone as a good source for understanding the workings of Reich's orgone therapy treatments.^[2]^[3] In Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich, Myron Sharaf describes Me and the Orgone as a vivid view of Reich's therapeutic process.^[4]

Sources

Me and the Orgone from The Education Revolution
American College of Orgonomy Information and therapy referral

References

^ "The Gospel of Orgasm". Time. May 10, 1971. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
^ Coddington, Mary (1991). Seekers of the Healing Energy: Reich, Cayce, the Kahunas, and Other Masters. Foreword by William Gutman. Inner Traditions / Bear & Company. pp. 106, 154. ISBN 0-89281-313-X.
^ Kelley, Charles R. (2004). Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature. Trafford Publishing. pp. 46, p295. ISBN 1-4120-2338-6.
^ Sharaf, Myron (1994). Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. Da Capo Press. p. 523. ISBN 0-306-80575-8.

[1] "The Gospel of Orgasm". Time. May 10, 1971. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-26.

[2] Coddington, Mary (1991). Seekers of the Healing Energy: Reich, Cayce, the Kahunas, and Other Masters. Foreword by William Gutman. Inner Traditions / Bear & Company. pp. 106, 154. ISBN 0-89281-313-X.

[3] Kelley, Charles R. (2004). Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature. Trafford Publishing. pp. 46, p295. ISBN 1-4120-2338-6.

[4] Sharaf, Myron (1994). Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. Da Capo Press. p. 523. ISBN 0-306-80575-8.

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v t e Wilhelm Reich
Ideas	Orgastic potency Character analysis Vegetotherapy Freudo-Marxism Orgone
Works	"Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation" (1922) Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis (1927) Character Analysis (1933) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Sexual Revolution (1936) The Function of the Orgasm (1942) Listen, Little Man! (1945)
Other	Cloudbuster W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) Me and the Orgone (1971) "Cloudbusting" (1985) Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987) The All Souls' Waiting Room (2002) The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich (2013)
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