 The psychoanalyst Richard Sterba wrote in 1982 that Reich had been a brilliant clinician and teacher in the 1920s ; even the older analysts had wanted to attend his technical seminars in Vienna . But according to Sharaf , they came to consider Reich as paranoid and belligerent . Psychologist Luis Cordon wrote that Reich 's slide from respectability concluded with the consensus inside and outside the psychoanalytic community that he was at best a crackpot and perhaps seriously ill . 
