 | Reich treats a person’s typical manner — how they hold, resist, and present — as one compact defense. Anxiety stays bound in the maintenance of that pattern, in attitude and in muscle, so the feeling does not have to be renegotiated each minute. Reich First published 1933 - Edition (1972) · Simon & Schuster · ISBN 9780671217792 |
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Core science
Clinical lineage from character-analytic work, first published in German in 1933 and revised in later English editions. The transferable claim is functional: a protection can become chronic enough that contact with feeling drops. It is not a controlled trial, and it is not a license to read every tension as a recovered childhood scene.
Application
Open when a hard sentence is cheap to say and the body stays unavailable. The shelf map is Character armor: one layer off is contact; the whole pattern off in an afternoon is how people get hurt.