For mechanistic pathology, functional illnesses are “imaginary” illnesses. When the mechanistic physician cannot ascertain any alteration in the chemical composition of the blood or in the structure of the tissues, he cannot diagnose an illness, even if the patient actually dies. The functionally oriented physician, the orgone therapist, knows about the bodily function of the emotions. He understands how and why one can “die of grief.” For grief is functionally identical with the shrinking of the autonomic nervous system, a protracted shock, as it were. For him, “functional fever” is not a figment of the imagination but a real, biophysically interpretable excitation of the biosystem.
Wilhelm Reich
Discovery of the Orgone Volume Three, Orgonometry
Ether, God and Devil
Farrar Strauss Giroux, NY
P.90
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