Die Entdeckung des Orgons 2. Der Krebs

For decades, Reich's late major work "The Cancer," which first appeared in America in 1948 but was subsequently withdrawn from circulation and burned by court order in the 1950s, remained unknown and taboo. Now, at a moment of great openness towards unorthodox approaches to the cancer problem, the book is being released simultaneously in America and various European countries. Unlike conventional cancer research, which examines the causes of the disease in a separate-mechanistic manner, Reich views cancer as a total disease of the organism, a process of contraction that originates from a chronic stagnation of biological-sexual energy. The typical characterological resignation of cancer patients, which has since been scientifically confirmed, has already been recognized by Reich as a fundamental characteristic. For him, they are not merely a consequence, but...