 Reich 's first book , Der <unk> <unk> : Eine <unk> <unk> zur Pathologie des Ich ( " The Impulsive Character : A Psychoanalytic Study of the Pathology of the Self " ) , was published in 1925 . It was a study of the anti @-@ social personalities he had encountered in the Ambulatorium , and argued the need for a systematic theory of character . The book won him professional recognition , including from Freud , who in 1927 arranged for his appointment to the executive committee of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society . The appointment was made over the objection of Paul Federn , who had been Reich 's second analyst in 1922 and who , according to Sharaf , regarded Reich as a psychopath . Reich found the society dull and wrote that he behaved " like a shark in a pond of carps . " 
