American College of Orgonomy

The American College of Orgonomy (ACO) is a nonprofit organization with the self-stated purpose of advancing research in the study of orgonomy,[1] a pseudoscientific field[2][3][4][5] originally developed by the former psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Reich asked his student and colleague, Elsworth Baker, to carry the study of orgonomy forward. In response, Baker founded the ACO in 1968.[6][7] The ACO is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

References

  1. ↑ "The College:About the ACO", The American College of Orgonomy, retrieved 8 May 2016
  2. ↑ Isaacs, K. (1999). "Searching for Science in Psychoanalysis". Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 29 (3): 235–252. doi:10.1023/A:1021973219022. [orgone is] a useless fiction with faulty basic premises, thin partial theory, and unsubstantiated application results. It was quickly discredited and cast away.
  3. ↑ Jon E. Roeckelein (2006). Elsevier's dictionary of psychological theories. Elsevier. pp. 493, 517–518. ISBN 978-0-444-51750-0.
  4. ↑ Robert E. Butts (1993). "Sciences and Pseudosciences. An attempt at a new form of demarcation". In John Earman. Philosophical problems of the internal and external worlds: essays on the philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum. Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science. 1. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8229-3738-8.
  5. ↑ Arthur Wrobel (1987). Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth-century America (illustrated ed.). University Press of Kentucky. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-8131-1632-7.
  6. ↑ Levy, Ariel (19 Sep 2011), "Novelty Acts", The New Yorker, retrieved 8 May 2016
  7. ↑ Sharaf, Myron (1994). Fury on Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. Da Capo Press. pp. 480–481. ISBN 0-306-80575-8.

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