 His reputation took a sudden downturn in April and May 1947 , when articles by Mildred Edie Brady were published in Harper 's and The New Republic , the latter entitled " The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich , " with the subhead , " The man who blames both neuroses and cancer on unsatisfactory sexual activities has been repudiated by only one scientific journal . " Brady 's ultimate target was not Reich but psychoanalysis , which according to Turner she saw as akin to astrology . 
