CONCLUDING STATEMENTS

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Psychiatric orgone therapy is not for all patients.  There are some people who come to see me and I realize that they don't have the wherewithal to do the work that is required in therapy, or their structures are too fragile to start to tinker with, and I refer them to colleagues who do only verbal therapy.

All of the standard psychiatric approaches toward patients are employed in psychiatric orgone therapy.  I use antidepressants when necessary and I use neuroleptic drugs when necessary and I do everything that I learned in my psychiatric training when treating a patient.  The difference is that I think that I have a range of activities and interventions with which to deal with patients which many other psychotherapists do not have.  It's very typical for our trainees in psychiatric orgone therapy, who are doing their residencies, to say to us, "I am so happy that I have a  larger armamentarium than those people have."

Another interesting  experience was a girl that I treated a long time ago. She was a lady in her twenties, knew nothing about Freud, Reich, nobody.  She didn't know anything about psychiatry, her family physician referred her to me.  I thought she would be a good candidate for therapy, so we did orgone therapy.  She did very well, and many months later, she came in and said,  "Do you want to hear something?"  I said, "What?"  She said, "I have a girlfriend who went to a psychiatrist and all they do is talk."  And that's the difference between what we do and what most other people are doing.