Eva Reich: “The peace on earth begins in the uterus” by Renata Reich Moise E va Renate Reich, MD, a resident of Hancock, Maine, USA for more than 50 years, and an internationally known lecturer on emotional health, died Sunday August 10th 2008 in her daughter’s arms at her home on Hancock Point Road. She was 84 years old and had been in failing health for some time after a stroke of the spine on New Years Eve 2001 left her a paraplegic. Dr. Reich was born in Vienna, Austria on April 27th , 1924, the daughter of two luminaries in the world of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Wilhelm Reich and Annie (Pink) Reich. She and her younger sister Lore immigrated with their mother to the United States in 1938 after their parent’s divorce, and lived in New York City. In this country Eva attended Barnard College, and the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, earning her MD in degree in 1949 at the age of 25. During these years she was married to and then divorced from Jerome Siskind, a social worker, with whom she had corresponded daily during World War 11. After a two year rotating internship she became a General Practitioner (akin to Family Practice), maternal child health always her special passion . She met William (Bill) Moise, the artist, while both worked at her father’s laboratory in Rangeley, Maine. There they studied Orgonomy, a science of energy and Eva with Freckles, Oil on Canvas, Renata Reich, 1989 energy & character vol.37 may 2009 9
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