Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (2)
Simple though it is, Dianetics does and is these things:
1. It is an organized science of thought built on definite axioms (statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences).
2. It contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psychosomatic ills, with assurance [...]
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (3)
Dianetics is actually a family of sciences embracing the various humanities and translating them into usefully precise definitions. The present volume deals with Individual Dianetics and is a handbook containing the necessary skills both for the handling of interpersonal relations and the treatment of the mind. With the techniques presented in this handbook the psychiatrist, [...]
Book: Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (1)
What Life is Doing
My right to enter this field was an inquiring brain which had been trained in mathematics and engineering and which had a memory bank full of questions and far-flung observations.
It was the basic contention that the human mind was a problem in engineering and that all knowledge would [...]