Wilhelm Reich Museum

05/12/2026

In Rangeley, there are still some local people with first-hand recollections of Wilhelm Reich. I had the good fortune to meet one of them today — an 86-year-old gentleman who, as a young man, was told by Reich how to use simple orgone accumulator to treat a wound on his horse's shoulder. Here's his story in his own words.

04/16/2026

04/10/2026

https://mailchi.mp/wilhelmreichmuseum.org/programs-2026-details

04/10/2026

2026 Online Summer Conference Details - https://2026.wilhelmreichmuseum.org

July 31 - August 2
Zoom video

03/25/2026

Wilhelm Reich's early Marxist-period essays (1929–1934) are again available from Verso Books in their Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929–1934 edition, edited by Lee Baxandall with an introduction by Bertell Ollman and translations by Anna Bostock, Tom DuBose, and Baxandall.

This collection includes "Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis," "The Imposition of Sexual Morality," "What is Class Consciousness?," and other writings. Due to a quirk of copyright history, the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust has not been involved with the publication of these essays, which have been in and out of print since the 1960s.

Available in paperback and ebook:

This volume contains the first complete translations of Wilhelm Reich’s writings from his Marxist period. Reich, who died in 1957, had a career with a single goal: to find ways of relieving human suffering. And the same curiosity and courage that led him from medical school to join the early pione...

03/12/2026

Coming soon as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series (vol. 379) from Brill, by author Philip W. Bennett:

The first full intellectual history devoted specifically to the social and political thought of Wilhelm Reich. It examines how Reich’s political views evolved over time—from revolutionary communism in the 1920s to his later theory of “work democracy.”

Philip W. Bennett Author: Philip W. Bennett From Communism to Work Democracy is the first book devoted solely to Wilhelm Reich’s social and political thought and activities. It is an intellectual history tracing Reich’s evolution from a 1920s-style communism to work democracy, a form of anarchis...

03/12/2026

Information: An interdisciplinary event dedicated to will take place in Naples, Italy on May 30–31, 2026.

Researchers, therapists, and professionals from different fields will come together to explore the relevance of orgonomic science in today’s world — from clinical practice to social and biophysical perspectives.

Further details and registration below:

Conferenza Internazionale di Orgonomia - Napoli 2026

03/04/2026

https://mailchi.mp/wilhelmreichmuseum.org/programs-2026-b

02/04/2026

The author of the new book about Bernie Sanders, Dan Chiasson, has given me permission to post this little exchange he had with a friend of mine today, who knows him. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Chiasson came to respect Reich as a result of his research for the book, but a bit sad that he didn't exercise more due diligence when writing about Reich in the book.

01/30/2026