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International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone Research

Bound photocopy (all four volumes): $ 140.00
Also available individually. See above the Table of Contents for each individual issue (listed below).

According to a note on the title page of the inaugural issue, this journal was "The official organ of the International Institute of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research," the original name of Reich's research organization in New York City. The journal's title page listed Wilhelm Reich, M.D. as Director and Theodore Wolfe, M.D. as Editor.

Four volumes of this journal--each comprising Numbers 1,2,3--were published regularly from 1942 to 1945 by the Orgone Institute Press, located at 157 Christopher Street in Manhattan. Subscriptions were $4.00 per year. (In 1947, two years after this journal ceased publication, Reich continued to publish his research in a subsequent publication called Annals of the Orgone Institute.)

TABLES OF CONTENTS

International Journal of Sex-Economy
and Orgone-Research

Volume 1, Numbers 1-3 (1942)

Bound photocopy: $32.00

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"About the History and the Activities of Our Institute" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"A Talk With a Sensible Mother" by Ernst Walter, M.D.
First published as "Gesprach Mit Einer Venunftigen Mutter" in Zeitschr f. Polit. Psychologie und Sexualokonomie. 3, 1936.

"Sex-Economic 'Upbringing'" by Paul Martin, M.D.*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"The Sex-Economic Concept of Psychosomatic Identity and Antithesis" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"The Orgasm Reflex: A Case History" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Vegetotherapy" by Walter Frank, M.D*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

REVIEWS
The cardiovascular system in puberty (Paul Martin, M.D.)
Anxiety and sexual organs (Paul Martin, M.D.)
Experimental confirmation of respiratory inhibition (Paul Martin, M.D)
Sexology (Theodore Wolfe, M.D.)
"Character-analysis" (Theodore Wolfe, M.D.)

EDITORIALS
Sex-Economy and medicine
    Ill-advised surgical procedure
    The "dangers" of sexual intercourse

"Biophysical Functionalism and Mechanistic Natural Science" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
With editor's note about Reich's arrest by the FBI on December 12, 1941, and his subsequent detention at Ellis Island.

"The Discovery of the Orgone: Experimental Investigation of Biological Energy" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"The Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Shock Therapy as a Subjective Experience" by Mary Robert, M.D*.
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"The Treatment of a Depression" by Carl Arnold, Ph.D.*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"A Note on 'Integration' in Science" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"IN MEMORIAM: Bronislaw Malinowski 1884-1942" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

EDITORIALS
Sex-Economy and Everyday Life
    Character Armor in Everyday Life
    Mechanistic Medicine and National Health

Physiological Anchoring of Psychic Conflicts
    Present-Day Situation and Infantile Historical Background
    An Infantile Fear as Expressed as a Specific Inhibition of the Orgasm Reflex

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THE PROBLEM TEACHER

REVIEWS
Psychoanalysis and Orgastic Potency (Theodore Wolfe, M.D.)
General Semantics: The Mysticism of Words (Theodore Wolfe, M.D.)

CORRESPONDENCE
Letter from a Mother

"The Natural Organization of Protozoa from Orgone Energy Vesicles: Experimental Groundwork for an Understanding of Cancer Biopathy" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"The Dangers of Freedom" by Paul Martin, M.D.*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"The Place of Literature in the Cultural Struggle" by Stefan Hirning*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"Character and Society" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
An address before the Norwegian Student Organization in Oslo, April 18, 1936. First published in Zeitschr. f. Polit. Psychol. u. Sexual-okonomie, 3, 1936.

"A Sex-Economic Note on Academic Sexology" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"The Fascist Newspaper Campaign in Norway" by Gunnar Leistikow

CORRESPONDENCE
On the Psychology of Adolescence
The Old Question of Magnification Over 2000X
Disastrous Fads in Infant Upbringing
Realization of Change

NOTES
On the Technique of Irrationalism in Social Life [commentary on a police investigation of Reich in May 1942]

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THE PROBLEM TEACHER

International Journal of Sex-Economy
and Orgone-Research

Volume 2, Numbers 1-3 (1943)

Bound photocopy: $32.00

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"Experimental Orgone Therapy of the Cancer Biopathy (1937-1943)" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Give Responsibility to Vitally Necessary Work!" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"The Biological Miscalculation in Human Struggle for Freedom" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Work Democracy Versus Politics" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Vegetotherapeutic Gymnastics" by Lucille Bellamy

"Freedom is Not So Dangerous" by Dorothy I. Post

"The Sexual Behavior of Adolescents in a New York Borough" by a High School Senior, with an Editorial Comment
Editor's Comment

"A Sex-Economist Answers" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"Misconceptions of Sex-Economy as Evidenced in Book Reviews" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

REVIEWS
Social Reconstruction Without Sex-Economy (Harry Obermayer)
Which Kind of Progressive Education? (Paul Martin)

NOTES
Party-Political and Scientific Concept of Fascism
On Defamation
Miscellaneous Questions
Free Upbringing and Fitness for War
Abolition of Co-Education in Soviet Russia
Note from the Orgone Institute Regarding Orgone Accumulators
Warning Against the Misinterpretation of "Sexual Health"

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THE PROBLEM TEACHER

International Journal of Sex-Economy
and Orgone-Research

Volume 3, Numbers 1-3 (1944)

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"Thermical and Electroscopical Orgonometry: The Discovery of the Orgone - Part 2" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Sex Economy" by Carl Arnold, Ph.D.*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

"The Masochistic Character" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.
From Charakter-Analyse (1933)

"A Sex-Economist Answers - Part 2" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"On a Common Motive for Defamation" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

NOTES
Rational and Irrational Discussion of Orgone Biophysics
Nuttier Than a Fruitcake
A Sex-Economic Prediction Come True

REVIEWS
The Psychology of Fascism (Harry Obermayer)
The Boy Sex Offender and His Later Career (Theodore Wolfe, M.D.)

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THE PROBLEM TEACHER

"Orgonotic Pulsation: The differentiation of the orgone energy from electromagnetism, presented in talks with an electrophysicist" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"The 'Living Productive Power, Working Power' of Karl Marx" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D. (written in 1936)

"The Stumbling Block in Medicine and Psychiatry" by Theodore Wolfe, M.D.

"Sex Education in the Schools" by Paul Martin, M.D.*
* With editor's note: "This is a pseudonym. Present conditions force us, unfortunately, to withhold the names of our European co-workers."

NOTES
The orgone energy in early scientific literature
A clarification
Some observations of children

REVIEWS
The Ethics of Sexual Acts (Alexander Lowen)
Education--A Search for New Principles (Harry Obermayer)
Children in Soviet Russia (Harry Obermayer)
Psychoanalysis Today (Gladys Meyer)

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THAT DREADFUL SCHOOL

International Journal of Sex-Economy
and Orgone-Research

Volume 4, Numbers 1-3 (1945)

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"Anorgonia in the Carcinomatous Shrinking Biopathy" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Some Mechanisms of the Emotional Plague" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Coeducation and Sex" by A.S. Neill

"A Case History" by Felicia Saxe

"Adolescence: A Problem in Sex-Economy" by Alexander Lowen

"Outline of the Present Activities of the Orgone Institute"

NOTES
Cold Facts
Sexuality before the Law
Free Love

REVIEWS
An American Dilemma - The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Gladys Meyer)

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THAT DREADFUL SCHOOL

"Orgone Biophysics, Mechanistic Science and 'Atomic' Energy" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"Experimental Demonstration of the Physical Orgone Energy: Preliminary Communication" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.

"The Development of the Authoritarian State Apparatus from Rational Social Interrelationships" by Wilhelm Reich, M.D.,
from The Mass Psychology of Fascism - 3rd revised, enlarged edition

"Studying 'The Children's Place'" by Elena Calas, M.S.

"The Child and His Struggle" by Lucille Bellamy Denison

"The Making of Fascists" by Gladys Meyer, Ph.D.

"My First Experiences With the Orgone Accumulator" by Walter Hoppe, M.D.

NOTES
Is orgone atomic energy?
Orgonotic contact: Letter from a reader
"A new disease"
A note on "family cohesion"
Some practical problems of adolescent sex relationships
A note from the history of science
The position of sex-economy. A clarification
A.S. Neill and sex-economy. A correction
From the Orgone Institute
From the Orgone Institute Press

REVIEWS
The Machiavellians (Harry Obermayer)
Die Sexuelle Erziehung (Harry Obermayer)
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography (Gladys Meyer)
Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (Gladys Meyer)

Excerpts from A.S. Neill's THAT DREADFUL SCHOOL