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The psychoanalyst Richard Sterba ( 1898 – 1989 ) wrote that Reich was a brilliant clinician during the 1920s.

Sharaf writes that Reich was regularly viewed as paranoid, remote, belligerent, and fanatical, and there were rumors starting in the late 1920s that he was mentally ill and had been hospitalized, though Sharaf writes that he had not.

Paul Federn ( 1871 – 1950 ) became Reich's second analyst in 1922 ; he later said he had detected " incipient schizophrenia " and called Reich a psychopath.

Sandor Rado ( 1890 – 1972 ) had Reich as an analysand in 1931 and later declared him schizophrenic " in the most serious way.

" His daughter Lore, a psychiatrist, believed that he was bipolar.