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The content of Neo-Reichian massage was merged into Wilhelm Reich on January 2020. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.
The Works/bibliography of Wilhelm Reich’s publications was improved significantly as there was much confusion and overlap between the various sections; hence, the development of his work was hard to follow.
10 out of 12 articles were from the period 1920-1925, giving this period a strange emphasis. A much broader selection has been made now spanning all of Reich's career. Tried my best to select the initial 7, perhaps too many remain there.
As certain articles and pamflets (e.g. Orgone Accumulator Handbook) are highly significant to the development of Reich's work, it was favored to include books and articles in one list. It appeared better to divide the material into the historical periods of Reich's life and work, just as the sections of the main article.
The unpublished manuscript Menschen im Staat, 1937 was taken out. It has only been published in the later book form People in Trouble.
English and German titles are listed as if separate developments, but they are a continuous proces. Reich switched to English when in USA.
Many english titles or ‘posthumous works’ were just translations with e.g. merely a new preface or some footnotes (The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Life (1979); The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality 1971; Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis, 1980; The Bioelectrical Investigations of Sexuality and Anxiety; 1982). These have been listed where they are supposed to be chronologically in reich's work.
Highly revised / enlarged english translations are arguably the only ones that could be included in the USA section. Character Analysis 1945 (2nd ed.),The Sexual Revolution 1945 (3rd ed.), The Mass Psychology of Fascism 1946 (3rd enlarged), The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality 1951 (3rd ed) – published only in 1971. However, to understand the development of Reich's work, I favored listing these as newer editions behind the original publication date and title.
Biographical material is grouped together with letters and the Freud interviews.
Posthumous work now only includes significant unpublished material.
If the material was published in English, that was used as the English translation. Else the direct translation was included in square brackets.
As a rule, the original publication date and title was leading.
Arguably the books could be put in bold face, as to make them stand out more from the articles. Trying to leave it to others from here; took a lot of effort to make this, was mostly for private reasons. ~2026-10690-73 (talk) 20:43, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It has been a while since this article was reviewed, so I took a look and noticed the following:
There are some uncited statements in the article, including a "citation needed" tag from 2022.
At over 10,200 words, this article is considered over the 8,000 word count recommended at WP:TOOBIG per WP:AS. I do not think this person is notable enough to justify its extended length, and instead some information should be spun out or summarised more effectively.
Articles are whatever length they need to be in order to say what's worth saying about their subject, and length is certainly not pegged to what is "justified" by how "notable enough" the subject might be. I agree that there's a good deal in the article that should be condensed or trimmed, but that's because this or that aspect is best served by a more concise presentation of that aspect -- not because of some overall word count in a one-size-fits-all table put together by people suffering from the delusion that our readers want to read articles from beginning to end in one sitting. EEng02:45, 28 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Best to keep the topics covered in the article in one place. Reich is certainly notable enough for both this length and additional data. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:42, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Randy Kryn:WP:AS and WP:TOOBIG has stated that articles over a certain size should be spun out rather than kept in one place. I do not think the topic can justify the length because attempts to spin out the information have not occurred yet. Z1720 (talk) 02:47, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
TOOBIG contains the wording "...though the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading material." Reich's varied historical breakthroughs, writings, successes, controversies, and imprisonment extend the scope of this biographical topic. Lots to include, and as an accredited good article, this page covers it well. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:57, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
