There are many questions that have come up regarding Dianetics, some of which I will answer here. “What are the results with psychotics?” The results with psychotics at the present time are pretty fair. Of course, psychotics are definitely in the hands of psychiatry–they are actually wards of the state–and we are trying very hard […]
schizophrenia
Lecture: Derivation Of Laws – Part I
It is an effort to make somebody else be very self-controlled. These things go in as demon circuits1. The demon circuit is “You control yourself,” whereas “I” as a single aberration just tries to align itself with “I.” Psychosis seems to occur because one of these demon circuits says to what is left of poor […]
Lecture: How To Become An Auditor In One Easy Lesson
I had one patient who got the data from the file clerk on a model railroad train. I had another one who had his data handed to him on playing cards. This is a well-known mechanism in schizophrenia. Any time you get an odd kind of a file clerk you haven’t got a file clerk. […]
Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (1)
[…] The above demonstrated a patient who is stuck on the track1, and anybody trying to work him up and down the track is, of course, trying to work him in and out of a doctor’s and nurse’s valence2. Perhaps you don’t have to have a computation of a hospital although it certainly looked like […]
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (13)
There has been, in recent years, a practice called “narcosynthesis.” This was actually a branch of “hypnoanalysis” and “deep analysis.” It did not produce clears and it did not even produce alleviation in the majority of its cases. But it was discovered to be an aberrative factor in itself. A thing which aberrates may well […]
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (10)
The conditions and mechanisms which hide the engram bank do not vary: they are uniformly present in every patient, in every human being. The techniques of Dianetics may be improved upon-and what scientific technique, particularly in its first few years of existence, cannot be-but they also do not perform selectively but are applicable to all […]