Lecture: Spectrum From Psychosis To Clear

The paranoiac, like most psychotics, is infested with demon circuits1. He is under a heavy battery of controls. Large sections of his analyzer are sawed off by circuitry. Occasionally you are made to feel that you are talking to a person who is very convincing and who has a great deal to offer, but you [...]

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: 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: 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: Science of Survival (3)

The processing methods which raise a person on the tone scale are so very simple to apply that one wonders, or perhaps does not wonder, at the continued insistence on destructive “therapies” in institutions. These institutions often use sedatives, and yet one of the worst things that an individual who is in a disturbed state [...]

Lecture: Auditing Demonstration

Stability is extremely necessary in your case. There’s no reason why you should keep on diving off like this. If it was good auditing you would not have done so.
But with poor auditing where the auditor is challenging your information, in addition to which there is a psychiatrist entering into the case delving around in [...]

PAB: Case Opening

Now, to begin, I have often offered a point to you which is nearly always missed—the mind and the body are part of a gradient scale of creation. The mind is at a high point on this scale, the body at a low point. The mind has all the capabilities of the body, but the [...]

Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (5)

paranoid-schizophrenic: (psychiatry) of or concerning a mental condition resembling paranoia (form of psychosis in which a person imagines that he is being persecuted or that he is very great or important) but also characterized by autistic (concerning a state of mind characterized by daydreaming, hallucinations and disregard of external reality) behavior and gradual deterioration of [...]

HCOB: The Introspection Rundown

I have made a technical breakthrough which possibly ranks with the major discoveries of the twentieth century. It is certainly the greatest advancement of 1973 and is now being released after a final wrap-up of research. It is called the Introspection Rundown.
The purpose of the Introspection RD is to locate and correct those things which [...]

HCOB: Psychosis

PSYCHOSIS
Through a slight change of procedure on certain preclears I have been able to view the underlying motives and mechanisms of psychosis.
Very possibly this is the first time the mechanisms which bring about insanity have been fully viewed. I must say that it requires a bit of confronting.
The alleviation of [...]

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