 Reich established the Orgonomic Infant Research Center ( OIRC ) in 1950 , with the aim of preventing muscular armouring in children from birth . Meetings were held in the basement of his house in Forest Hills . Turner wrote that several children who were treated by OIRC therapists later said they had been sexually abused by the therapists , although not by Reich . One woman said she was assaulted by one of Reich 's associates when she was five years old . Children were asked to stand naked in front of Reich and a group of 30 therapists in his basement , while Reich described the children 's " blockages . " Reich 's daughter , Lore Reich Rubin , told Turner that she believed her father was an abuser , although she did not say she had been abused by him , and she acknowledged that she had no evidence . She believed that Reich himself had been abused as a child , which is why he developed such an interest in sex and childhood sexuality . 
