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She writes movingly and at length about discredited psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich — he of the steel-lined orgone box — who died in 1957 at Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after years of persecution by the Food and Drug Administration.

The orgone box style of acting — hermetic, self-engrossed — is back with a vengeance.

Bean also became a spokesman of sorts for psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich’s self-healing theories of the “orgone box” on talk shows.

“My epitaph,” Mann joked to me, “will be that I was the first person to put a string quartet in an orgone box.”

Often Bellamy was alone, curled up inside the orgone box that Kenneth Noland had left in the gallery.