 In 1935 Reich bought an oscillograph and attached it to friends and students , who volunteered to touch and kiss each other while Reich read the tracings . One of the volunteers was a young Willy Brandt , the future chancellor of Germany . At the time , he was married to Reich 's secretary , Gertrude Gaasland , and was living in Norway to organize protests against the Nazis . Reich also took measurements from the patients of a psychiatric hospital near Oslo , including catatonic patients , with the permission of the hospital 's director . Reich described the oscillograph experiments in 1937 in Experimentelle Ergebniße Über Die Elektrische Funktion von Sexualität und Angst ( The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety ) . 
