bully and thief is going to be difficult and dangerous, for when his hate
begins to come out I'll have to fight for my life!
So much for the difficulties. I find the method a million times more
pleasant (for me) than the old, in which I sometimes nearly fell asleep
listening to dull dreams. And the children like it better and come
regularly, which they seldom did in the old days.
Lewis's Medical Library has just informed me that they have sold a
dozen Functions. I am telling them to apply direct to N.Y. if they want
more.
I get quite a few letters from N.Y. now. Your journal has given me
some publicity there, and it looks as if I'll have to arrange a lecture tour
the moment the war is over ... if it is over by the time I am 80 or so.
lt should be a great event to meet you again. By your photo I see you
haven't changed a bit. You must send me a photo of lIse, one in which
her eyes can be seen.
At last I am within sight of an Akku. Two weeks ago an Indian
physicist came on a visit, read your journals and was most interested.
He said he could get a cage made in his lab and would send it on soon.
It is almost impossible to make contact with people in the war period.
Many are in the forces, doctors and teachers who, in peace time, might
be interested in veg.-ther. The leading scientists are all on war work.
Reichism will have to await the peace days.
Well, Reich, all the best, and may your loving study of Peter add
new knowledge to your whole philosophy of life.
Organon
Rangeley , Maine
My dear Neill:
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August 6, 1944I have your letter of July 15th. I am glad you began to do
vegeto-therapy, and especially that you tried with adolescents. Since
all grown-ups are more or less hopeless, as far as basic change of struc
ture is concerned, the only hope is, I firmly believe, establishment of
rationality in children and adolescents when the biophysical reactions
still can be molded.
The term "resistance" is still valid, but in quite a different way than
used in psychoanalytic technique. If a patient "resists," it means that
you did not find the correct words and actions on specific places on his