Childhood
Reich was born the first of two sons to Leon Reich, a farmer, and his wife Cäcilie (née Roniger) in Dobzau, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine. Wilhelm Reich's parents

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Undergraduate studies
Reich joined the Austro-Hungarian Armyduring the First World War, serving from 1915 to 1918, for the last two years as a lieutenant at the Italian front with 40 men under his command. When the war ended he headed for Vienna,

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Verlag für Sexualpolitik
Reich and his wife moved to Berlin in November 1930, where he set up clinics in working-class areas, taught sex education and published pamphlets.

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Bioelectricity
In October 1934, Reich and Lindenberg moved to Oslo, Norway, where Harald K. Schjelderup, professor of psychology at the University of Oslo, had invited Reich to lecture on character analysis and vegetotherapy. They

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Teaching, second marriage
When Hitler annexedAustria in March 1938, Reich's ex-wife and daughters had already left for the United States. Later that year, Theodore P. Wolfe, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, traveled to Norway to study under

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Brady articles, FDA
Until 1947, Reich enjoyed largely uncritical attention from the press in the United States. One journal,

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Psychotherapy
The psychoanalyst Richard Sterba wrote in 1982 that Reich had been a brilliant clinician and teacher in the

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