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Being one of a very few psychiatrists and psychoanalysts in the United States who were analyzed by Dr. Wilhelm Reich in Europe, I have been asked by several people to set down a few of my recollections in regard to Dr. Reich himself and my analytic experience with him.
I will begin by recounting how I arrived in Vienna, Austria in September 1929 and began analysis with Dr. Reich. In 1929, I began a Commonwealth Fellowship of three years' duration which was sponsored by Dr. C. Macfie Campbell, then Professor of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School and the work being done at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. After one year, those holding this fellowship were allowed the privilege of spending a year in Europe studying whatever they wished. I had made up my mind that I wished to be psychoanalyzed, if possible, during that time or at least get started with the study of psychoanalysis. When I presented this idea to Dr. Campbell as the type of work I would like to do while on my European visit, he hesitated only momentarily. He looked at the ceiling and leaned back in his chair, reminded himself that I came from Maine, and that a year in Vienna studying psychoanalysis and Freud's theories and principles of practicing psychotherapy would probably be a good blend of New England austerity and the Vienna of that time with its academic life, its culture, and its cafe-life and waltzes. So, within five minutes he had told me I had his permission to make the appropriate plans.
I set out for Europe in late August 1929, and after arriving in Hamburg and moving on down through Berlin and Prague, I