Peter Reich
Peter Reich (SPH’79) of Cambridge, Mass., writes that his autobiographical novel, A Book of Dreams (Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2015), has been reissued after more than 40 years since its original 1973 publication. Peter writes that the revival was prompted in large part by singer Kate Bush’s 1985 album Hounds of Love. The album includes the song “Cloudbusting,” which was inspired by Peter’s novel and the life of his father, psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Peter, a retired School of Public Health assistant professor of environmental health, has a strong connection to BU, and credits the clinicians at the School of Medicine with saving his life when, in early 2004, he was put in an induced coma for nine weeks to treat complications from Pemphigus vulgaris, a rare auto-immune disorder. Upon remission, Peter worked to help produce an instructional module on the disorder for second-year medical students.
From the Winter-Spring 2016 issue.