REICH, Wilhelm. The Bion Experiments on the Origin of Life. New York: Octagon Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Thus. Trade paperback. 200x136mm. 198pp. Almost Fine.

Illustrated with black and white plates. Documents a series of experiments conducted in Oslo in 1936-37 in which Reich applied the formula of tension, charge, discharge, relaxation, derived from his research on the function of the orgasm, to the microscopic biological world, thereby opening a route to an understanding of the origin of life.