A Book of Dreams - The Book That Inspired Kate Bush's Hit Song 'Cloudbusting'

This famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush’s 1985 hit song ‘Cloudbusting’, is the extraordinary account of life as friend, confidant and child of the brilliant but persecuted psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Peter, his son, shared with his father the revolutionary concept of a world where dream and reality are virtually indistinguishable, and the sense of mission which set him and his followers apart from the rest of the human race.

Here, Peter Reich writes vividly and movingly of the mysterious experiences he shared with his father: of flying saucers; the ‘cloudbuster’ rain-makers and the FDA narks; and of the final tragic realization of his father’s death, which woke him up to the necessity of living out his life in an alien world.

Already regarded as a modern classic, A Book of Dreams is not only a beautifully written narrative of a remarkable friendship and collaboration, but a loving son’s heartfelt tribute to a loving father.

Author Biography

Peter Reich, son of the controversial Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who died in a US jail in 1957, was born in New York in 1944. After his father’s death, he left the USA to study French at Grenoble, eventually returning to take degrees at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and at Boston University School of Public Health. He has been a VISTA volunteer in Oregon, has worked with drug addicts in Boston and also as a journalist in New York, and for the past 30 years has worked at Boston University School of Medicine. He lives in Massachusetts.