 In late 1954 Reich began an affair with Grethe Hoff , a former patient . Hoff was married to another former student and patient of his , the psychologist Myron Sharaf , who decades later , with his Fury on Earth ( 1983 ) , became Reich 's main biographer . Hoff and Sharaf had had their first child the year before Hoff left him for Reich ; the marriage was never repaired although the affair had ended by June 1955 . Two months later Reich began another relationship , this time with Aurora Karrer , a medical researcher , and , in November , he moved out of Orgonon to an apartment in Alban Towers , Washington , D.C. , to live with her , using the pseudonym Dr. Walter <unk> . 
