Wilhelm Reich Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Wilhelm Reich? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Wilhelm Reich from Psychology & Neuroscience and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w6)
Wilhelm Reich personality type is INTP, not INFP. The latter is a false dichotomy, a simplifying of the real difference between these two types (the latter is characterized by extraversion, while the former is referred to by many as "the introverted extravert"). It's also worth noting that even though Jung was aware of the difference between the two types, he referred to the INTP as the "introverted intuitive" (iNtuitive), not the "introverted introvert" (INTP), which is clearly not the same. The difference between the two is that while the latter is introverted, the former is extraverted.
Both types are referred to by different names in other sources; The INTP is called the "introverted intuition" (Ni) type, while the INFP is called the "introverted feeling" (Fi) type.
I will refer to Jung's dichotomy as "the three-type system" for convenience, because it's an outdated one, but it's still widely used in the literature. I will also use "intellectual type" for convenience, though many will disagree with that choice.
Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst of Jewish descent. He was a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936). Reich's work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour—the expression of the personality in the way the body moves—shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, bioenergetic analysis and primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals; he coined the phrase "the sexual revolution" and according to one historian acted as its midwife. During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psych
