 On 23 August six tons of Reich 's books , journals and papers were burned in New York , in the Gansevoort incinerator , the public incinerator on 25th Street . The material included copies of several of his books , including The Sexual Revolution , Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism . Although these had been published in German before Reich ever discussed orgone , he had added mention of it to the English editions , so they were caught by the injunction . It has been cited as one of the worst examples of censorship in U.S. history . As with the accumulators , the FDA was supposed only to observe the destruction . The psychiatrist Victor <unk> ( d . 1995 ) , an associate of Reich 's , wrote : 
