 From the 1930s he became an increasingly controversial figure , and from 1932 until his death in 1957 all his work was self @-@ published . His message of sexual liberation disturbed the psychoanalytic community and his political associates , and his vegetotherapy , in which he massaged his disrobed patients to dissolve their " muscular armour , " violated the key taboos of psychoanalysis . He moved to New York in 1939 , in part to escape the Nazis , and shortly after arriving coined the term " orgone " – from " orgasm " and " organism " – for a biological energy he said he had discovered , which he said others called God . In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators , devices that his patients sat inside to harness the reputed health benefits , leading to newspaper stories about sex boxes that cured cancer . 
