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in which my work is developing because you have decided to come to the United States and continue working with me for a short while. Since, according to what you write, you have accepted Dr. Philipson's technique, it would be a great disappointment for you, and one that would involve great sacrifice, if you were to come here and discover that the improvements in my technique, which I have been implementing since 1939, pointed in a direction that was unacceptable to you. The case histories of my patients, in particular those relating to cancer biopathy published in the journal, give an approximately correct picture of the status of my current work. As long as I do not have a detailed description of the changes which have been made to the technique, I must leave everything up in the air. It will interest you to learn that for about a year and a half, in addition to my routine work which is known to you, I have been trying to break through the character armor in a rapid and concentrated way in order to prepare the patient for character analysis in a shorter period of time. These experiments are very promising. 2. On the matter of the Scandinavian journal, I did not understand the following point: You wrote that a Scandinavian journal could not appear until a sufficient number of scientific articles were available. Why are the new papers from the institute not translated into Norwegian and published in the Scandinavian journal? We have, as a matter of course, taken the articles which appeared in Scandinavia and had them translated and published in English here. I believe it is the duty of a section of the institute to prepare its publications. Since there has been no personal or work-related contact between us for almost seven years now, I am afraid to say any more because I do not know how things really are in Scandinavia, whether or not a Scandinavian Section of the present Orgone Institute still exists and is operational. This question also I must leave until I can discuss it in person with you or another coworker. 3. The orgone biophysics which has developed in America since 1939 is not a new area of research but a legitimate continuation of the old sex-economic research into the area of biology and physics. For the first time in the history of biopsychiatry, our ideas about energetic processes in the organism are no longer hanging in the air but have been anchored in experiment and microscopic observation.