Editorial by: Silvia Specht Boadella David Boadella Esther Frankel Milton Corrêa T his issue pays homage to Eva Reich who, as written in the Personal message by David Boadella, dedicated her life to build creative bridges between worlds. Eva’s passion for truth and her clear enthusiasm for helping people in trouble was an inspiration for David and Silvia and also for us and we hope that she can inspire all the people who want a better and peaceful world. An introductory biography (and the obituary) of Eva Reich is presented by her daughter Renata Reich Moise, with the title The peace on earth begins in the uterus, which describes Eva’s travels to 30 countries, battling for a better world. In this article Renata also reminds us about “Butterfly Baby Massage”, created by Eva, and that in Berlin, special ambulances rush to homes where babies are crying inconsolably, using her methods to calm the babies. The article Household Use of the Orgone by Renata Reich presents a touching story about the beginning of Eva Reich’s life as the daugther of Wilhelm Reich and as the revolutionary doctor in a small town in the coast of USA. Renata shows how Eva for as long as 10 years, with love and courage used creatively, all her skills, traditional western medicine, natural medicine, and Orgone medicine. She diagnosed people, combining her understanding of character structure, Reichian blood test looking for t-bacilus, as well using skills she had learned in medical school. With care and admiration Renata lists some clinical notes that Eva wrote about her clients and how Eva treated them with orgone acummulator. The design of some acummulators is described by Renata and she shows also how they was used to help Eva Reich in her illness before she died. At the turn of the pendulum’s swing is a collection of texts from an Eva Reich diary organized by Renata Reich. In this intimate writing Eva express her soul, despair, anger, idealism and faith. Eva Reich in her article The Battle for a New humanity wrote about her preventive work based on the biological evolution according to the findings of Wilhelm Reich. The biological evolution which produces human beings who could tolerate gentleness and pleasure in life, who would shun violence and to whom war would be anachronistic. She also claims that self-regulation and responsible freedom must be encouraged from infancy onward. She shows that the biological evolution is possible from the “right of the babies to be wanted babies”. Eva Reich writing from her vast experience traveling around the world, brings hope that is possible to change how the world works when childbirth education available to all expectant parents. In her article Reich was right: self regulation from Wilhelm Reich to Contemporary applied Neuroscience Jacqueline Carleton explores the relevance of Reich’s thought, in special his basic principle of self regulation, to contemporary neuroscientific research and to neuroscientifically-based treatments of trauma. She presents an interesting bridge between the pioneer ideas of Reich and the recent researches of neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. The article Doing Effective Body Psychotherapy without Touch: The process of Re-embodiment by Courtenay Young, presents an overview of Body Psychotherapy according of Neuroscience, Anthopology, Psychosocial, Cultural images, Transitional objects, narrative therapy and body images, He explores and deepens the concepts of embodiment and re-embodiment. In this article Courtenay advises about the indiscriminated use of touch without a carefully ethical posture adequate to the real necessities of the client and as he states “we don’t touch because we have learnt about touch and the effects of touch and because we can now achieve almost exactly the same effects in different ways, if needed, without touch. We can only now work without touch because we have worked extensively with touch; maybe we have embodied touch sufficiently so that we can touch our clients differently, without touching them physically”. Courtenay emphasizes the importance of therapeutic alliance and the quality of emotional attachment between client and therapist for an effective benefit of therapy. In her article Femininity, Gender and Essence in Body-Psuchotherapy: reflections on theory, clinical and teaching experience, Liliana Acero presents a critical review of how women and female sexuality
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