Character Analysis

Character Analysis
ISBN-10
1952000149
ISBN-13
9781952000140
Category
Psychology
Language
English
Published
2023-11-03
Publisher
WRM Press
Author
Wilhelm Reich

Description

Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933. As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wilhelm 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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