Definitions
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- adjective psychoanalysis Relating to or influenced by the Austrian
psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and histherapeutic methods. - noun psychoanalysis A follower of Reich or his methods.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Greenberg's wife, Pat, calls her Reichian therapist -- the one who had always dismissed mental illness as a social myth -- and he tells the parents to take their child to the emergency room immediately.
Farewell Peace of Mind Melanie Thernstrom 2008
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Yet there would come to be countless adherents less well known—professors, medical doctors, disgruntled seekers "burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo of night," in the famous formulation of Allen Ginsberg, who himself underwent Reichian therapy in 1948.
Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011
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Yet there would come to be countless adherents less well known—professors, medical doctors, disgruntled seekers "burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo of night," in the famous formulation of Allen Ginsberg, who himself underwent Reichian therapy in 1948.
Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011
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He was a Reichian, a follower of Wilhelm Reich, which was the most avant-garde of the schools of psychotherapy, almost a cult, and one which had many followers in the Village, including Toshka.
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And, in the Reichian parable, the only solution to this market failure is massive government intervention.
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The Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, for example, of which four were performed — "Saeta" and "Canaries" are both early (1949) experiments in simultaneous tempi and metric modulation, and, with their predominantly triplet -, eighth -, and dotted-eighth-note vocabulary, there are fleeting audible glimpses of Reichian phase-shifting.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, for example, of which four were performed — "Saeta" and "Canaries" are both early (1949) experiments in simultaneous tempi and metric modulation, and, with their predominantly triplet -, eighth -, and dotted-eighth-note vocabulary, there are fleeting audible glimpses of Reichian phase-shifting.
Magna Carter (7): Either/Or Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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There are quiet moments in the midst of the Reichian storm — as when a couple contemplate each other isolated on a small balcony to the right of the stage.
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There are quiet moments in the midst of the Reichian storm — as when a couple contemplate each other isolated on a small balcony to the right of the stage.
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One of the more surprising episodes of BITTERSWEET, for me, reveals that Strasberg's friendship with Noel Harrison and his family got her interested in Reichian therapy.
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