 Reich first met Sigmund Freud in 1919 when he asked Freud for a reading list for a seminar concerning sexology . It seems they left a strong impression on each other . Freud allowed him to start meeting with analytic patients in September that year , although Reich was just 22 years old and still an undergraduate , which gave him a small income . He was accepted as a guest member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association , becoming a regular member in October 1920 , and began his own analysis with Isidor Sadger . He lived and worked out of an apartment on Berggasse 7 , the street on which Freud lived at no . 19 , in the Alsergrund area of Vienna . 
