 Norway was proud of its intellectual tolerance , so the " Reich affair , " especially following the country 's 1936 expulsion of Leon Trotsky , put Nygaardsvold 's government on the spot . A compromise was found . Reich was given his visa , but a royal decree was issued stipulating that anyone wanting to practice psychoanalysis needed a licence , and it was understood that Reich would not be given one . Throughout the affair Reich issued just one public statement , when he asked for a commission to replicate his bion experiments . Sharaf writes that the opposition to his work affected his personality and relationships . He was left humiliated , no longer comfortable in public , and seething with bitterness against the researchers who had denounced him . 
