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Beginning January, 1998
Title: Training Program in Orgone Therapy
Sponser: Center for Orgonomic Studies
Where: Seattle, Washington, USA

The Center for Orgonomic Studies offers a comprehensive 3-year training program in Wilhelm Reich's biophysical (body focused) approach to character restructuring for qualified mental health professionals. Training is conducted through a combination individual supervision and either semimonthly or long weekend didactic seminars. The semimonthly seminar program will begin in January, 1998, and is accepting applications at this time. The weekend seminar program will begin in Spring, 1999.

During the first year of training the basic theory and technique of orgone therapy will be presented and demonstrated. At mid year trainees will also begin to participate in twice monthly individual supervision using videotapes of their sessions. The second year of seminars will address in more depth both clinical theory and technique, as applied to the clinical work of the students and faculty. There will be extensive analysis of videotaped sessions. The third year will consist of ongoing individual supervision and case study seminars. Selected third year students will be invited to participate in the training of other therapists.

Semimonthly seminar schedule:
Two 3-hour seminars per month, beginning in January, 1998, excluding summer break (July and August). Exact dates have not been scheduled at this time.
Fee: $1200 for first year's seminars.
Fees for supervision additional. Some partial scholarships available.
Location: Seattle, Washington.
Registration: For more information and for application contact Daniel Schiff, Ph.D. at (206) 523-0800 or e-mail: DSchiff104@aol.com.

Training Faculty:

Harry Lewis, ED.D., MSW, is a clinical social worker with 20 years' experience as an orgone therapist. Director of the Institute for the Study of the Work of Wilhelm Reich in New York. Michael B. Rothenberg, M.D., is a psychiatrist with 35 years' experience as an orgone therapist. Senior Consultant for training.
Daniel Schiff, Ph.D., is a psychologist with 20 years' experience in the practice of psychotherapy and orgone therapy. Director of the Center for Orgonomic Studies.

The Center for Orgonomic Studies has been established to provide educational opportunities for the study of the science of orgonomy, as developed by Wilhelm Reich, M.D. The Center offers a number of introductory courses for both professionals and the public on orgonomic issues, as well as a 3-year training program for licensed mental health professionals in the practice of Wilhelm Reich's biophysical (body focused) approach to character restructuring.

Further information regarding programs offered through the Center for Orgonomic Studies may be obtained by contacting its Director, Daniel Schiff, Ph.D. at (206) 523-0800, or via e-mail: DSchiff104@aol.com.

Friday Evening Lecture and Weekend Seminars on Orgonomy Berin, Germany 9-10-11 January 1998 James DeMeo, Ph.D. Director of the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab, Ashland, Oregon, USA Presentations in English Language.

Vortrag

Freitag, 09.01.98, 18 - 21.15 Uhr in der Fachhochschule fuer Wirtschaft. Badensche Str. 50, 10825 Berlin (U-Bhf. Berliner Strasse): "Loesung atmosphaerischer Blockierung und Duerrebekaempfung" (Dissolution of atmospheric blocks and drought-abatement) in Engischer Sprache, mit dt. Uebersetzung, Eintritt frei.

Wochenend-seminare In der "Selbstverwaltete Heilpraktikerschule", Hoefe am Suedstern, 1. Hof, 4.Etage, Hasenheide 54, 10967 Berlin (U-Bhf. Suedstern):

Samstag, 10 Januar '98, 10 - 18 Uhr. "Die Bioenergetischen Grundlagen des Globalen Wettergeschehens", Orgonomische Zusammenhaenge von Klimaveraenderungen, Duerren und der Ausbreitung der Wuesten. (The Bioenergetic Basis of Global Weather - Orgonomic relationships between climate changes, droughts and desert-spreading) in Engischer Sprache. Eintritt: 60 DM, ermaessigt 30 DM

Sonntag, 11 Januar '98, 10-18 Uhr. "Die Saharasia-These", Entstehung und Ausbreitung des Patriarchats und der Gewalt in der menschlichen Gesellschaft. (The Saharasia Thesis, Origin and Diffusion of Patrism and Violence in Human Society) in Engischer Sprache. Eintritt: 60 DM, ermaessigt 30 DM

Das Buch zum Seminar: SAHARASIA: Der Ursprung der Gewalt in der menschlichen Gesselschaft, der Beginn von Kreigen, Kindesmisshandlungen und Unterdrueckung der Sexualitaet vor 6,000 Jaren in den Wuesten der alten Welt. (Januar '98, von Orgon Biophysical Research Lab, Ashland, Oregon, USA)

James DeMeos lange erwartetes Buch ueber die Anfaenge menschlicher Panzerung: die erste geographische, kulturuebergreifende Studeie menschlichen Verhaltens anhand einer Fuelle archaeologischer und ethnologischer Daten aus der ganzen Welt und unter Zugrundelegung der sexualoekonomischen Entedeckungen Wilhelm Reichs. Ueber 400 seiten mit vielen illustrationen, fotos und karten sowie einer vollstaendigen bibliographie. Erhaeltlich (vorlaeufig nur auf englische) entweder am Seminarwochendende oder direkt beim OBRL ab Januar '98.

Weitere Literatur:

James DeMeo: "Der Orgonakkumulator -- Ein Handbuch", Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt/Main, 1994.

James DeMeo: "Entstehung und Ausbreitung des Patriarchats -- die Saharasia These". Eine Zusammenfassung in: "Emotion" 10/1992. Volker Knapp-Diederichs Publikationen (Tel.: 030-471-7468)

Bernd Senf: "Die Wiederentdeckung des Lebendigen", Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt/Main 1996.

James DeMeo und Bernd Senf (Hrsg.): "Nach Reich: Sammelwork mit internationalen Beitraegen zu Wilhelm Reich", Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt/Main 1997.

OBRL http://id.mind.net/community/orgonelab/index.htm demeo@mind.net

Time: 1:00pm-4:30 pm

Cost: $45 (Free to former students for review)

Participants will learn the basic theory of Gentle Bio-Energetics, Butterfly Touch Therapy, and the Trauma Life-Line. One introduction day, past or present, is required to register for the training program. This requirement can be met on an individual basis by special arrangement when necessary.

To register for workshops, order publications, or for more information, please contact Richard Overly at:

rcoverly@ioa.com

or PO Box 18809 Asheville, NC 288814 (704)258-2254

Training Workshop Dates
Second Semester: Feb 13-14 (1998), Mar 13-14, Apr 17-18, May 8-9, June 12-13
Time: Fri 6:00pm-10:00pm; Sat 9:00am-6:00pm
Cost: $100 per weekend
Location: 247 Charlotte St., Asheville, NC

Trainees are required to make a commitment to one full semester at a time.
The Sunday following each weekend is an optional day for individual training or supervision.

To register for workshops, order publications, or for more information, please contact
Richard Overly at: rcoverly@ioa.com

or PO Box 18809 Asheville, NC 288814 (704)258-2254

Special seminar conducted by W.B. Apple, Ph.D.
space is limited / cost $50 / time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Call 732-821-1144 for further information

Conference Sponsor: VHS-Studienhaus
Where: VHS-Studienhaus am Neumarkt, Josef-Haubrich-Hof 2, R. 504

Description: Reich war Hauptschüler Siegmund Freuds und ist der Vater aller Körpertherapien wie z. B. der Bioenergetik. Er widerlegte die Luftkeimtheorie und entdeckte die Orgonstrahlung, die er erfolgreich u.a. bei Krebserkrankungen einsetzte. Bekannt wurde Reich in den 60igern durch sein Konzept der Funktion des Orgasmus (Vortrag mit Videofilm).

Bitte Voranmeldung: A-1430082, 18,- DM

Join Michael Mannion, author of the forthcoming books Alternative America: Healing and the Transformation of American Medicine and Project Mindshift: The Re-Education of the American Public Concerning Extraterrestrial Life, for an evening presentation on the life and work of Wilhelm Reich.

For more information, or to register, call or write:

INTERFACE 218 Walnut Street Newtonville, MA 02160-1602 Phone: 617-964-9360 Fax: 617-964-9378

Conference Sponsor: Ökobildungswerk Köln
Where: Herwarthstr. 22, Köln, Tel: 0221/51402

Description: Von der Geburt bis zum Schulbeginn durchläuft das Kind verschiedene sexuelle Entwicklungsphasen, die - nicht frühzeitig identifiziert - dazu führen können, daß das Kind eine grundlegende neurotische Charakterstruktur herausbildet, die sein weiteres Leben bestimmt. Die Entdeckung der kindlichen Sexualität geht auf Siegmund Freud zurück und wurde Grundlage einer sexualökonomischen Pädagogik, die auf Wilhelm Reich basiert. An diesem Abend sollen die verschiedenen Prozesse des Kindes erläutert werden, sowie die Möglichkeiten von Eltern, diese zu erkennen und darauf zu reagieren.

Keine Anmeldung erforderlich, Preis 7 (5) DM

Presentations include:
Development of Armoring in Children.
Child's Play: An Orgonomic Perspective
Adolescent Sexuality
Orgonomic Principles in Family Functioning

For further information contact
Daniel Schiff, Ph.D., Director,
Center for Orgonomic Studies,
tel (206) 523-0800 or e-mail orgstudies@aol.com.
Or check the Center's web site: http://www.jps.net/orgstudy.

Programs will take place during the morning hours and there are special events in the evenings, including a private reception and tour of the museum. Afternoons are left free to enable participants to vacation in the beautiful Rangeley Lakes Region.

Registration fee is $250.00. This fee includes tuition, information packet, continental breakfast, and refreshments.

Two scholarships are available. To apply call 207-864-3443

"The subject of 'sexuality' virtually cuts through all scientific fields of research. In the central phenomenon, the sexual orgasm, we meet with questions deriving from the field of psychology as well as from that of physiology, from the field of biology no less than from that of sociology. Natural science offers hardly another field of research that is so well equipped to exhibit the fundamental unity of everything that lives and to guard against narrow, fragmentizing specialization."        -Wilhelm Reich

Reich himself has said that the rapid progression of his work from psychology to biology appeared to his co-workers like a sudden jump. Others have accused him of leaping irrationally from one area of exploration to another without reference to any unitary organizing principle. These leaps are usually described as beginning in his "sane" days as a psychoanalyst, then progressing into the "wild blue yonder" of sex-economy and orgone radiation. This gross misunderstanding plays out today in the advice given to psychiatric residents to study Reich's Character Analysis carefully, but not to bother reading Part III: "From Psychoanalysis to Orgone Biophysics."

In contrast, those who have read Reich's writings and studied seriously the progression of his thought realize that, in his words, "One problem and its solution led to another. Every part of the work owes its existence to the peculiar course of scientific logic." In short, there is a common thread running throughout all of Reich's investigations to which each apparently disparatediscovery can ultimately be related.

The summer conference at Orgonon will explore this common thread as it is presented in Reich's seminal work The Function of the Orgasm. This book, which traces the development of his new field of science from its origins in a Seminar for Sexology at the University of Vienna Medical School to the experimental validation of the orgasm theory, will be discussed from a variety of perspectives. All registrants are urged to read the book in preparation for active participation in discussions which will constitute an important part of each day's program.

Program Speakers

Kenneth J. Baker, D.O, Family physician, Norridgewock, Maine. An appreciation for Reich's work stems from Dr. Baker's interest in parenting and preventive mental health.

Mary DeJoseph, D.O., Clinical Advisor, Biomedical Masters Program, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. DeJoseph's interest in Reich's work originated in a study of the role of the autonomic nervous system in health and disease.

Mary Boyd Higgins, As Trustee of the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust since 1959, Ms. Higgins is dedicated to preserving the truth about Reich's life and work and securing its safe transmission to future generations. She is Director, The Wilhelm Reich Museum, and co-editor of Reich's published works.

Patricia J. Middleton, M.D., has been in the full-time practice of intensive long-term psychotherapy for twenty-five years. She has studied Reich's work episodically throughout that time.

SCHEDULE

Monday
9 a.m. General Survey Biology & Sexology before Freud: Mary Boyd Higgins
11 a.m. Peer Gynt: Mary DeJoseph, D.O.
5:00 p.m. Reception at Orgone Energy Observatory

Tuesday
9 a.m. Gaps in Psychology and in the Theory of Sex: Patricia J. Middleton, M.D
11 a.m. The Development of the Orgasm Theory: Kenneth Baker, D.O.
7:30 p.m. Leni Riefenstahl's film: Triumph of the Will
              A remarkable example of mass-psychological techniques used by Hitler and the National Socialist Movement.

Wednesday
9 a.m. The Development of the Character Analytic Technique: Patricia J. Middleton, M.D.
11 a.m. An Abortive Biological Revolution: Mary Boyd Higgins

Thursday
9 a.m. The Breakthrough into the Biological Realm: Mary DeJoseph, D.O.
11 a.m. The Orgasm Reflex and the Technique of Character-Analytic Vegetotherapy: Mary DeJoseph, D.O. & Kenneth Baker, D.O.
7:30 p.m. From Psychoanalysis to Biogenesis: TBA

Friday
9 a.m. Response to Thursday evening's program and roundtable discussion: All Presenters
5 p.m. Friends Annual Meeting, followed by a Cabaret

Home

Presentations will take place during the morning hours and there are special events in the evenings, including a private reception and tour of the museum. Afternoons are left free to enable participants to vacation in the beautiful Rangeley Lakes Region.

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REGISTRATION FEE $250.00

This fee includes tuition, information packet, continental breakfast, and refreshments.

There is an early bird fee for registrations received by June 1st, 1998.

ACCOMMODATIONS: Please contact: Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 317, Rangeley, Me 04970, (207) 864-5364

SCHOLARSHIPS: Two scholarships are available. To apply, call 207-864-3443

CREDIT: The University of Maine will award 2.75 CEU's for this program at a cost of $15.00 . To be eligible for these units one must attend all sessions.

GENERAL INFORMATION FROM PAST YEARS

The conference will take place during the morning hours. Continental breakfast is served at 8:30 a.m. Programs begin promptly at 9:00 a.m.

TAX DEDUCTION: IRS regulations permit an income tax deduction for educational expenses undertaken to maintain or improve professional skills. Included in that deduction is the cost of registration, travel, meals, and lodging.

ACCOMMODATIONS: , include campgrounds, hotels, motels, bunk rooms, B&B's, and cottages. You are encouraged to make your reservations early as this is a busy time of the season in Rangeley. For reservations: Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 317, Rangeley, Maine 04970, (207) 864-5364

HOW TO REGISTER:
Early registration is encouraged. To register by mail: Complete and return attached form with check or credit card information. To register by phone: Please call (207) 864-3443. Registrations may be made with Mastercard, Visa, or American Express.

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REGISTRATION FORM

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The Wilhelm Reich Museum
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The museum reserves the right to limit enrollment, modify programs, and to cancel.

25-26 July 1998
The Orgone Biophysical Research Lab Presents:
Bions and The Reich Blood Test: Introductory Laboratory Microscopy Seminar
Saturday & Sunday; 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
cost of $150 per full weekend event

September 27, 1998

Princeton, New Jersey tel- 732-821-1144 ---

regular participants @ $120
participants registering after Aug 27 @ $135
full-time students (with student ID) @ $15
retired seniors @ $60

• Speakers:
• Anna Patsourou, MD.; "Breast-feeding: New Discoveries and Supportive Interventions to Promote this vital mother-infant Contact"
• Michel Odent, MD.; "Respect for the Newborn: the beginning of civilization"
• Peter A. Christ, MD.; "Problems of childhood self-regulation in an age of permissiveness"
• Dale G. Rosin, D.O.; "Medical Orgone therapy in the treatment of infants"

There will be a reading by professional actors of WHEN EAGLES FLY by Martin N. Bell on Monday evening October 19th at 7 PM at CAP 21, 18 West 18th Street, 6th Floor, Studio One, New York, NY. Admission is Free. The play deals with the FDA's prosecution of Wilhelm Reich and Michael Silvert.

It can be read at http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax8mnb1.htm

Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998 Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Lunch break 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Fee: $45/general public, $30/students, no fee/ retirees.
Location: University of Washington, Balmer Hall – Room 417, Seattle, WA

Speakers and Presentations:

Anxiety and Depression: An Overview of Current Psychological and Psychiatric Theory. Daniel Schiff, Ph.D. Psychologist and orgone therapist. Director, Center for Orgonomic Studies.

Basic Orgonomic - Bioenergetic Principles. Mitch Singer, MA. Individual, couples and family counselor. Orgone therapist. Seattle.

Anxiety and Depression: A Bioenergetic Perspective. Daniel Schiff, Ph.D. Psychologist and orgone therapist. Director, Center for Orgonomic Studies.

Orgonomic Management of Anxiety and Depression. Harry Lewis, Ed.D., MSW. Faculty member, New School for Social Research, New York. Orgone therapist. Director, Institute for the Study of the Work of Wilhelm Reich.

Discussant. Michael B. Rothenberg, M.D. Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine. Medical Orgonomist. Senior Consultant for orgonomic training, Center for Orgonomic Studies.

Contact Daniel Schiff, Ph.D. at The Center for Orgonomic Studies, orgstudies@aol.com, 206 523-0800 for registration information. And visit the Center's web site "http://www.jps.net/orgstudy" Center for Orgonomic Studies to learn more about the Center's educational programs.

Donation: $25. (Includes a Parking Permit that will be sent to registrants)

Mans Emotional Desert Dr. Richard A. Blasband, Director, CFR

Saharasia: The 4000 B.C. Origins of Child Abuse, Sex Repression, Warfare, and Social Violence in the deserts of the Old World Dr. James A. DeMeo, Director, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory

Revisioning the Earth Paul Devereux, Author of Re-Visioning the Earth

Directions to Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley >From Highway 80 Exit University Avenue and go east for 2 miles to Oxford St. Turn Right on Oxford Street which becomes Fulton Street Turn Left on Dwight Way and go east for 1 mile Turn Right on Warring Street (left is Piedmont Ave.) Clark Kerr Campus is located on the left at 2601 Warring Continue past the horseshoe shaped driveway to the next Entrance for parking in the Southwest Parking Lot >From the Southwest Parking Lot walk back north, parallel to Warring St. into the Conference Center Building, Room 102.

The conference will be dedicated to the late CFR Director Louis Hochberg. It is sponsored in part by the many friends of Bertha Klugman who contributed in her memory.

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