dianetics

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Attacking psychiatry has started even before Hubbard wrote dianetics, his first book: he was then trying to get help from psychiatry, but was not accepting to pay, so, he asked to the Veteran's hospital to help him for free.

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  • (The therapy being practiced was L. Ron Hubbard's dianetics, the ancestor of Scientology, which Sturgeon had been dabbling with, though he didn't explicitly say so in the story.) —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • I can understand your concerns about us attacking psychiatry, especially if you don't know what dianetics and Scientology really is, as you comments suggest. —  Brain Blogger
  • Attacking psychiatry has started even before Hubbard wrote dianetics, his first book: he was then trying to get help from psychiatry, but was not accepting to pay, so, he asked to the Veteran's hospital to help him for free. —  Brain Blogger
  • Stephen Wolfram and the techno-dianetics of Google-ology will nab iPhone users, says Palm investor —  The Tech Report: News
  • I've read the bible and I've read dianetics and there's nothing in either (even considering both books authors) that was of any real substance that could be backed by verifiable proof. .though I must admit the overall —  Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
 

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