Talk:The Mass Psychology of Fascism

American Republican party
Someone should make a page about the similarities of this with why American citizens are attracted to the Republican Party.190.219.52.26 (talk) 16:49, 19 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Even if that wouldn't be considered original research, this book is best understood as part of Reich's broader pseudo-scientific works on orgone theory.
 * The guy was so sex obsessed he though he could make it rain by draining sex energy from the sky. 2A06:A003:8008:0:C216:C1C2:DDC8:B75D (talk) 02:12, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

FDA book-burning claims
This book WAS NOT ordered burned by the FDA. It is common knowledge (so I'm leaving it un-cited) his book on Orgonne and cancer, "The Cancer Biopathy" was ordered out of distribution in the US for Medical Quackery eg they say he was claiming Orgonne to be a cure for cancer, which is also what got him thrown in a federal prison for leasing his Orgonne boxes to people such as beatnik William Burroughs Sr in other states eg. Mail fraud for that alleged claim to a cancer cure. Now every oncology ward in the US has a negative ion generator (which is what Reich's "Orgonne" is) prominent in the room. Razer Ray — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.242.68.99 (talk) 21:52, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Additional sources
A few quick bits I ran across, and had mentioned at Talk:Wilhelm Reich, but which are probably more pertinent here: Might be fruitful, if you have access to journal-search services, to look in more poli-sci and soc journals; I get the impression that Reich's being a psychotherapist relegated most reviews to psych publications, at least when the book was new, so that's most of what turns up in Google searching. I didn't try running a Google Scholar or Google Books search, just regular G'hits, to dig up the material above. Might even show up in news sometimes in reference to far-right reactionary stuff like Brexit and the Trump presidency. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:47, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Entry in International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (2005, via Encyclopedia.com)
 * A contemporary review in Social Service Review (1947, via University of Chicago Press Journals archive), but seems to be paywalled.
 * Another of same, in Foreign Affairs (1947), also paywalled
 * Another, same year, and short, in The Physiotherapy Review (via Oxford Academic archive), full text
 * Ditto in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (via APA PsychNet archive), paywalled
 * A 2010 retro-review from Yahoo Voices (via OpEd News archive) ; don't know if the author is notable
 * Paper on fascist cinema, drawing on TMPoF, in a 2014 edited volume, Triumph of the Will, full text
 * 2014 retro-review in The Indypendent ; may or may not be a worthwhile source
 * 2010 piece in Counterpunch, relating Reich's ideas to the rise of Tea Party reactionaries, full text
 * A sometimes-dismissive critique is laced throughout the 2009 book The Psychology of American Fascism (via Google Books), seemingly fully text

Real English Publishing Date?
The infobox says 1980, but the text scanned on Archive.org shows a 1946 publication date. Surely that's the correct one? Miserlou (talk) 18:18, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The source says "First English English Edition, 1946", so I've changed in infobox. The citation for 1980 is a dead link anyway, and I know that the book was widely read in the US in the 1960s. Miserlou (talk) 18:21, 13 September 2020 (UTC)