This classic book offers a comprehensive understanding of medical orgone therapy. Developed by Wilhelm Reich, M.D., this unique treatment incorporates an energetic understanding of how the mind and body are interconnected. With the failure of psychoanalysis to live up to expectations, the psychiatric pendulum has shifted in the direction of treatment with medications. Reich's clinical discoveries of more than 50 years ago have provided us with medical orgone therapy, an effective method of treatment that does not rely on medication. Man in the Trap, written in a straightforward style, will help readers better understand both medical orgone therapy, orgonomy and themselves.
Author(s): Elsworth F. Baker
Publisher: The American College of Orgonomy Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 354
Dedication
Contents
Foreword • Charles Konia
Preface
Glossary
Notes to the 1980 Printing
Part I. Character Formation: The Factors in Armoring
1. General Introduction
2. Emotional Development: Erogenous Zones and Libidinal Stages
3. Psychic Structure
4. Armoring
5. Problems of Contact
6. Genitality
Part II. Character Types: The Effects of Armoring
8. Genital Character Types
9. Phallic Character Types
10. Anal Character Types
Oral Character Types
12. Ocular Character Types
13. The Socio-Political Character Types
14. Common Somatic Biopathies
Part III. Character Management: The Removal of Armoring
15. The Initial Examination
16. General Therapeutic Principles
17. Orgonomic Biopsychiatric Therapy
Part IV. Character Management: The Prevention of Armoring
18. Prenatal and Natal Care
19. Babies
20. Care of the Infant
21. Conclusions
Selected Bibliography
Index
