Lecture: Dead Men’s Goals Part II

Once, a couple of years ago, I spent ten consecutive evenings in Washington, DC, talking to the superstrata of the upper crust of, as they humorously called it, mental healing—the best they had. We had a crew of auditors upstairs who were instructing them and processing them after they had listened [...]

Lecture: Two Way Communication

Now, ole’ Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the great Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, has a process which is intensely successful. If she knew where to go from there, she would be a great psychiatrist. She is the greatest in the United States and the world, almost, today, but that doesn’t make her a very great psychiatrist.
Anyway, [...]

Lecture: Chart of Human Evaluation Part I

You will read, in texts of ancient cults which have been taken out of the ruins of the New York American Psychiatric Association, notations to the effect that immediately after a death in the family people become sexually promiscuous, or something of the sort. This is really true! You take some [...]

Lecture: Suppressives and GAEs

Now, you would just be amazed how many cases resolve in an institution. I know, I’ve put my collar on backwards many a day and audited psychos in institutions in many a yesteryear. It’s amazing, absolutely amazing. Some of the results I’ve had with this make me sometimes a little bit [...]

Lecture: Methods of Processing

One of the earliest uses of it was by a fellow by the name of Homer Lane. Lane went into an insane asylum in England and he said to the individuals involved in the management of this insane asylum, “I want to see your toughest case.” He was not a psychiatrist (most [...]

Lecture: Survival Processing

Some people have been very fond of rushing up to me and saying, “You know, I’ve got a big idea of how we can sell Dianetics to psychiatry!” I can just see some fellow standing on a man-of-war, up on the signal platform working the shutter of a big searchlight, and it [...]

Lecture: Thinking Processes

This whole idea of “don’t have to work” is the same as “don’t push away the MEST vectors which are coming in from 360 degrees.” And “don’t have to work” means to be satisfied to let the patterns which MEST makes exist on every hand untroubled and undisturbed. In view of the fact these are [...]

Lecture: Gradients of Accessibility

A psychiatrist, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann1, put into my hands a processing manual for psychiatrists, which gives the new psychiatrist a lot of tips on how to practice his profession. She did me a lot of good in that moment, because she gave me a tool to use in case the fire gets too heavy.
I can quote [...]

Lecture: Handling Psychotics

The problem here is that of accessibility. The Standard Procedure Chart has right under its heading “(For Accessible Cases).” I have talked earlier about accessibility1, and the least accessible character of them all is the psychotic. That’s what it means. He is inaccessible. If we modified our terminology to make it [...]