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Wilson, Colin.
The Quest for Wilhelm Reich.
Publisher: Granada, London;
Date of Publication: 1981
Stock Code: 12848
First edition, octavo, pp., 306. Dove grey cloth covered boards with black titles to spine, in publisher’s original dust-jacket. Some slight bruising to lower edges and spine. Astrological diagram and annotations to rear free end paper. Otherwise a very good copy in a near fine jacket. Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) was a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. This fascinating biography by considers why the enigmatic scientist was driven to insanity, and ultimately death in prison, in pursuit of his beliefs. £30.00