Summer Conference at the Wilhelm Reich Museum

The Archives of the Orgone Institute are the personal, medical and scientific archives of research physician and scientist Wilhelm Reich, M.D. whose books were banned and burned by the United States government in the 1950s.   Reich's archives are located at the Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University, one of the world's premier medical libraries.  And in 2007- fifty years after Reich's death - these archives became accessible to scholars and researchers for the first time.  This conference will feature presentations of some of these archival materials (documents, audiotapes, films, laboratory notebooks, etc.) as well as lectures by individuals who have been researching these materials.

Among the lectures are: "Reich's Unpublished Laboratory Notebooks" by James Strick, Ph.D.,  "Reich's Unpublished Work Democracy Papers" by Philip Bennett, Ph.D.,  "New Book and Documentary Film Project" by Mary Higgins & Kevin Hinchey of  The Wilhelm Reich Museum, and "Reich's Experimental Work in Biology:  Technical Questions & Issues" by biologist Grier Sellers.   Archival films will include "Reich's Bion and Cancer Films" and various personal films.   Audiotapes will include:  "Reich's Experiments with Geiger-Müller Counters to Develop the Orgone Motor"  and "Reich's Founding of the Orgonomic Infant Research Center."

Registration Fee is $275  or  $75 per day.   For more information or to register, visit our website at www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org,  or call (207) 864-3443.