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40.
Gaines,
Fritz Perls
, 35.
41.
Atlas,
Bellow
, 163
42.
Steven J. Zipperstein,
Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 51.
43.
Kazin,
New York Jew
, 51.
44.
Isaac Rosenfeld,
Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader
, ed. Mark Shechner with a foreword by Saul Bellow (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), 16.
45.
Atlas,
Bellow
, 163.
46.
Ibid., 295.
47.
Saul Bellow,
Henderson the Rain King
(London: Penguin, 1996), 298.
48.
Ruth Miller,
Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
49.
Atlas,
Bellow
, 385.
50.
Philip Roth, “I Got a Scheme!”
The New Yorker
, April 25, 2005, 72.
51.
Atlas,
Bellow
, 165.
52.
Irving Howe,
A Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography
(San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984), 134.
53.
Kazin,
New York Jew
, 51.
54.
Saul Bellow,
Saul Bellow: Collected Stories
, ed. Janis Freedman Bellow and James Wood (New York: Viking, 2001), 241.
55.
Roth, “I Got a Scheme!” 72.
56.
David Halberstam,
The Fifties
(New York: Villard, 1993), 297.
57.
Barry Miles,
Ginsberg: A Biography
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 41.
58.
Steven Watson,
The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944–1960
(New York: Pantheon, 1995), 28.
59.
Miles,
Ginsberg
, 71.
60.
Martin S. Weinberg,
Sex Research: Studies from the Kinsey Institute
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 53.
61.
Miles,
Ginsberg
, 89.
62.
William S. Burroughs,
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945–1959
, ed. Oliver C. G. Harris (New York: Penguin, 1994), 11.
63.
Miles,
Ginsberg
, 95.
64.
Ibid., 96.
65.
Ibid.
66.
Burroughs,
Letters
, 19.
67.
Miles,
Ginsberg
, 99.
68.
Ibid., 101.
69.
Ibid., 102.
70.
Burroughs,
Letters
, 53.
71.
William S. Burroughs,
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
(New York: Arcade, 1986), 164.
72.
William Burroughs, “Orgone Accumulators I Have Owned,” a draft of an article published in
Oui
as “My Life on Orgone Boxes” (October 1977), box 47, folder 459, William S. Burroughs Papers, Ohio State University, Columbus.
73.
Ibid.
74.
Burroughs,
Letters
, 51.
75.
Jack Kerouac,
Road Novels, 1957–1960
, ed. Douglas Brinkley (New York: Library of America, 2007), 136.
76.
Burroughs. “Orgone Accumulators I Have Owned.”
77.
Perls,
In and Out the Garbage Pail
, 51.
78.
Ibid., 51.
79.
Ibid., 50.
80.
Ibid., 51.
81.
Rosenfeld’s Lives:
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009), 119.
82.
Shepard,
Fritz
, 61.
83.
Everett Shostrom, producer and director,
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy
, three-part film series, 1965.
84.
Gaines,
Fritz Perls
, 37.
85.
Frederick S. Perls, Ralph F. Hefferline, and Paul Goodman,
Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality
(New York: Delta Book, 1951), 144.
86.
Ibid.,
87.
J. Wysong, “An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy, Part 4: A Conversation with Elliott Shapiro,”
Gestalt Journal
8, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 15–26.
88.
Ibid.
89.
Edward Rosenfeld, “An Oral History of Gestalt Therapy, Part 2: Conversation with Isadore From,”
Gestalt Journal
1, no. 2 (Fall 1978): 7–27.
90.
Taylor Stoehr,
Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994), 158.
91.
Ibid., 240.

Eight

 

1.
Mildred E. Brady, “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich,”
The New Republic
, May 26, 1947, 20.
2.
Dexter Masters to Kenneth Tynan, quoted in Tynan’s unfinished manuscript “A Study of Wilhelm Reich.” Tynan Archive, British Library, London.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Henry Miller,
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
(New York: New Directions, 1945), 23.
6.
Henry Miller,
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
(New York: New Directions, 1957), 12.
7.
Kathryn Winslow,
Henry Miller: Full of Life
(Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, 1986), 61–62.
8.
Miller,
Big Sur
, 12.
9.
Ibid., 168.
10.
Lucille Marshall, author interview, December 2006.
11.
Nancy Leite, author interview, December 2006.
12.
Jody Scott, personal communication with author (e-mail), November 2006.
13.
Mildred E. Brady, “The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy,”
Harper’s Magazine
, April 1947, 312.
14.
Ibid., 314.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Philip Rieff,
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987), 141.
17.
Lucille Marshall, author interview.
18.
Wilhelm Reich,
American Odyssey: Letters and Journals
, ed. Mary B. Higgins (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), 307.
19.
Elsworth Baker, “My Eleven Years with Wilhelm Reich” (part 1),
Journal of Orgonomy
10, no. 2 (1976): 178. Elsworth Baker’s recollections, described as “a serialized book,” were published in the
Journal of Orgonomy
in seventeen parts between 1976 and 1984.
20.
Ibid., 178.
21.
Ibid., 179.
22.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 2),
Journal of Orgonomy
11, no. 1 (1977): 22.
23.
Ibid., 22.
24.
Myron Sharaf, “Further Remarks of Reich: 1948 and 1949,”
Journal of Orgonomy
6, no. 2 (1972): 238.
25.
Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 2): 158.
26.
Brady, “Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich,” 20.
27.
Beverley R. Placzek, ed., Reich,
Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence Between Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936–1957
(London: Gollancz, 1982), 164.
28.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 412.
29.
Ibid., 412.
30.
Brady, “Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich,” 22.
31.
Ibid., 20.
32.
Ibid., 22.
33.
Myron Sharaf,
Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich
(London: Hutchinson, 1984), 362.
34.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 392.
35.
September 1952, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
36.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 429.
37.
Jerome Greenfield,
Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A.
(New York: Norton, 1974), 77.
38.
Christof Mauch,
The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America’s Wartime Secret Intelligence Service
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 170.
39.
Joan Brady, author interview, August 2006. Their parents’ liberal attitude toward sex was confirmed by her sister, Judy Brady, in an author interview, November 2006.
40.
Sharaf,
Fury on Earth
, 366.
41.
Fredric Wertham,
Seduction of the Innocent
(Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1972), 47.
42.
Paul Goodman,
Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman
(New York: Free Life Editions, 1977), 82.
43.
Fredric Wertham, “Calling All Couriers,” review of
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
by Wilhelm Reich,
The New Republic
115, no. 2 (December 2, 1946): 737.
44.
Brady, “New Cult of Sex and Anarchy,” 320.
45.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 392.
46.
Ted Morgan,
Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America
(New York: Random House, 2003), 309.
47.
Ibid., 311.
48.
Arthur Schlesinger, “Who Was Henry A. Wallace,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 12, 2000.
49.
See Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds.,
VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939–1957
(Washington, D.C.: National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency, 1996), and John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr,
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
(Yale University Press, 2000). White’s code names were “Lawyer,” “Richard,” and “Jurist”; Duggan was referred to as “Frank.”
50.
Michael Whitney Straight,
After Long Silence
(London: Collins, 1983), 93.
51.
Miranda Carter,
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
(London: Macmillan, 2001), chapter 7.
52.
Christopher M. Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
(New York: Basic, 1999), pp. 581–82.
53.
Sarah J. Ormrod,
Cambridge Contributions
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 213.
54.
Ron Rosenbaum, “Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia,”
The New York Times
, July 10, 1994.
55.
Reich,
American Odyssey
, 273.
56.
Placzek,
Record of a Friendship
, Reich to Neill, 155.

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