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My viola teacher's teacher was married to a Reichian psychoanalyst. There was definitely lore shared about students getting lessons at the teacher's apartment a

• dang 3y ago
  Great story! That makes sense because Reichian therapy involves working directly on what Reich called "armor" (habitual physical tension related to emotional issues) and you can be sure that people emit all sorts of sounds when that happens. It also involves methods of deep breathing that heighten arousal (not necessarily sexual arousal but nervous system activation) for therapeutic purposes. This also causes strange sounds! Btw, Reich's therapeutic use of breathing is the antecedent to the breathwork that the early psychedelic therapists turned to once LSD was banned, and which is still widely practiced. I don't know if Stan Grof ever credited Reich with this, but Frank Lake, who was doing LSD psychotherapy with clients even earlier than Grof, wrote explicitly about having taken the breathwork approach from Reich. Yet another more case in which Reich was far ahead of his time.