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Spring/Summer 2013 The volume 48 • number 1 Journal of Orgonomy table of contents Editorial . 1 Medical Sciences A Young Hysteric with Terrifying Intrusive Thoughts Dale Rosin, D.O. 4 The Importance of Character Diagnosis in Working . with Adolescents and Their Families Edward Chastka, M.D. 14 A Patient with Multiple Abdominal-Pelvic Pathologies Alberto Foglia, M.D. 21 Right from the Start: Pregnancy, Birth and Emotions Susan Marcel, D.O. 27 An Orgonomic Approach to a Patient with Synthetic Marijuana-Induced Psychosis Susan Marcel, D.O. 38 The Schizophrenic Biopathy Part I—The Bio-Energetic Basis of Auditory Hallucinations James Willie, M.D. 46 Social Sciences Human Cluelessness Charles Konia, M.D.. 62 What Does Orgonomy Bring to Working with Couples? Peter Crist, M.D.. 77 Clinical Brief The True Basis of Resurrection Peter Crist, M.D.. 84 Notes from the Field Parakeet Behavior at a Clay Lick in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador Jack Sargent. 85 Questions and Answers . 88 Communications and Notes . 91 Contributing Authors. 100 Editorial Charles Konia, M.D. The Psychiatric Epidemiologist Epidemiology is the branch of medicine dealing with the factors (and their relationship) that determine the frequency and distribution of infectious diseases. Psychiatric epidemiology began as a branch of the medical sciences with the discovery of the emotional plague, an illness that differs from other contagious diseases in that it consists of both emotional (psychiatric) as well as infectious (medical) components. It was discovered by Wilhelm Reich, M.D., a physician who was well versed in both constituents of the illness. The discovery of the emotional plague extends the field of epidemiology from the medical into the psychiatric realm. However, there is one important difference between medical and psychiatric epidemiology and that has to do with understanding the difference between medical and psychiatric illness. Medical diseases involve component/somatic disturbances of the individual whereas psychiatric diseases involve whole/psychic disturbances. Thus, the nature of the vector or carrier that transfers the infective agent from one person to another in medical disease and in psychiatric manifestations of the plague is different. In medical disease, the carrier of the pathogen (i.e., virus, bacteria or protozoa), when not a person, is an arthropod such as a flea, tick or mosquito. The method of transfer of the disease and the manifestations of the infection are confined to the somatic realm. These are component functions of the organism. In the case of the emotional plague, the method of transfer is through the emotional interaction of one person, the vector, with another and the manifestations of the disease are in the psychic realm which constitutes whole functions. Although the emotional plague has not been recognized as an illness, its existence, or at least its manifestations have been 2nnnJournal of Orgonomy vol. 48 no. 1 recognized and written about by lay people throughout human history. Quite simply, it could not be comprehended as a disease until the pathology of emotional life was sufficiently understood. With Wilhelm Reich’s discovery of character and muscular armor, it was finally possible to comprehend the emotional plague as a true contagious psychiatric disorder. However, because there is no generally recognized scientific and medical understanding and acceptance of the reality of the plague, his discovery has had little effect in curbing its social destructiveness.
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