Authors: Wilhelm Reich, Andrew White (Translator), Mary Higgins
ISBN-13: 9780374510145, ISBN-10: 0374510148
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: January 1974
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual Starvation
What is Cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising spontaneously in an otherwise healthy organism. In contrast, Wilhelm Reich defines cancer not as a tumorthe tumor is merely a late manifestation of the diseasebut a systemic disease due to chronic thwaring of natural sexual functioning. In this radically different scientific investigation of a process that ends, literally, in the putrefaction of the living body due to chronic suffocatin of the tissues, Reich has arrived at the conclusion that "cancer is the most significant somatic expression of biophysiological effect of sexual stasis." If this is so, there is a far greater possibility for prevention of cancer than for its treatment.
The Cancer Biopathy is Volume II of The Discovery of the Orgone. Volume I is The Function of the Orgasm.
Preface | xv | |
I. | The Function of Tension and Charge | 3 |
II. | Orgone Energy Vesicles (Bions) and the Natural Organization of Protozoa | 14 |
III. | The Actual Discovery of Orgone Energy | 74 |
IV. | The Objective Demonstration of Orgone Radiation | 96 |
V. | The Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy | 151 |
VI. | The Cancer Cell | 213 |
VII. | Nature and Development of the Orgone Therapy Experiments | 290 |
VIII. | Results of Experimental Orgone Therapy in Humans with Cancer | 310 |
IX. | Anorgonia in the Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy | 343 |
X. | The Cancer Biopathy as a Problem of Sexual Sociology | 401 |
Appendix | 424 | |
Index | 427 |