Lecture: Structure/Function: Selective Variations

For instance, I had a…very amusing one time; I talked to the staff at Saint Elizabeths. If you can place somebody in time and space – we can put it out now – if you can place somebody in time and space with great accuracy and then put a monotony on it, [...]

Lecture: The Logics Methods of Thinking (2)

This is the most gorgeous, by the way, piece of classification that has ever been done. And it hasn’t any use. Its level of use is demonstrated by the fact that there’s a place by the name of Walnut Lodge1. I… I… They don’t see anything humorous in that, by the way; [...]

Lecture: The Itsa Line

Psychiatry does this all the time. They say, “This is dementia praecox case . . .” They’ve gotten so idiotic with it now that if somebody goes to that Chestnut Lodge, where Graham—that publisher of News week and the Post that was so against Scientology—where he went, and went home on [...]

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: 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: The Conduct of an Auditor (2)

At present we only have two bad cases. One is being cleared up right now at a very rapid rate. The other one is a manic-depressive who was beaten up by her paranoiac husband. He brought her in after her psychosis had broken—a very nasty sort of a case. Over the period [...]

Book: Dianetics 55!

Pan-determinism1 would be the willingness to determine or control self and dynamics other than self. [...]
Let us take for our example of pan-determinism the second dynamic. Here we find such a thorough effort to have other-determinism that Freud picked this out as the only aberrative factor. It is not the only aberrative factor, but in [...]

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