Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

by L. Ron Hubbard

Overview

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold.

The all-time classic on the human mind.

For 75 years, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health has remained a bestseller, with over 20 million copies sold across 206 nations. Why?

Because it challenges everything you thought you knew—about yourself, your decisions and the unseen influences affecting your life.

You may not know what the reactive mind is—yet. But once you do, it will change your life forever.

This hidden part of your mind stores painful experiences and uses them against you, altering your thoughts, emotions and behaviors in ways you don’t even realize.

Inside this handbook, you’ll discover:

• Why the same struggles keep repeating—and how you can break free
• The real reason behind stress, unreasonable fears and negative emotions
• A clear step-by-step method to clear your mind and unlock your true potential

This is not theory—it’s a practical, one-on-one journey into your reactive mind and how you can get rid of it. You don’t have to wait for change—you can start today.

GET THIS HANDBOOK.

START SEEING THE DIFFERENCE TODAY.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403144461
Publisher:	Bridge Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2007
Pages:	678
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

L. Ron Hubbard is universally acclaimed as the single most influential author and humanitarian of this modern age. His definitive works on the mind and spirit—comprising over 350 million copies in circulation and more than 40 international bestsellers—have resulted in a legacy benefiting millions and a movement spanning all cultures.

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Excerpt From: Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health

 Of what must a science of mind be composed?

1. An answer to the goal of thought.

2. A single source of all insanities, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions and social derangements.

3. Invariant scientific evidence as to the basic nature and functional background of the human mind.

4. Techniques (the art of application) by which the discovered single source could be invariably cured, ruling out, of course, the insanities of malformed, deleted or pathologically injured brains or nervous systems and, particularly, iatrogenic psychoses (those caused by doctors and involving the destruction of the living brain itself).

5. Methods of prevention of mental derangement.

6. The cause and cure of all psychosomatic ills, which number, some say, 70 percent of Man’s listed ailments.

Such a science would exceed the severest terms previously laid down for it in any age, but any computation on the subject should discover that a science of mind ought to be able to be and do just these things.

A science of the mind, if it were truly worthy of that name, would have to rank in experimental precision with physics and chemistry. There could be no “special cases” to its laws. There could be no recourse to Authority. The atom bomb bursts whether Einstein gives it permission or not. Laws native to Nature regulate the bursting of that bomb. Technicians, applying techniques derived from discovered natural laws, can make one or a million atom bombs all alike.

After the body of axioms and technique was organized and working as a science of mind, in rank with the physical sciences, it would be found to have points of agreement with almost every school of thought about thought which had ever existed. This is again a virtue and not a fault.

Simple though it is, Dianetics does and is these things:

1. It is an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences.

2. It contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psychosomatic ills, with assurance of complete cure in unselected cases.

3. It produces a condition of ability and rationality for Man well in advance of the current norm, enhancing rather than destroying his vigor and personality.

4. Dianetics gives a complete insight into the full potentialities of the mind, discovering them to be well in excess of past supposition.

5. The basic nature of Man is discovered in Dianetics, rather than hazarded or postulated, since that basic nature can be brought into action in any individual completely. And that basic nature is discovered to be good.

6. The single source of mental derangement is discovered and demonstrated on a clinical or laboratory basis by Dianetics.

7. The extent, storage capacity and recallability of the human memory is finally established by Dianetics.

8. The full recording abilities of the mind are discovered by Dianetics with the conclusion that they are quite dissimilar to former suppositions.

9. Dianetics brings forth the non-germ theory of disease, complementing biochemistry and Pasteur’s work on the germ theory to embrace the field.

10. With Dianetics ends the “necessity” of destroying the brain by shock or surgery to effect “tractability” in mental patients and “adjust” them.

11. A workable explanation of the physiological effects of drugs and endocrine substances exists in Dianetics and many problems posed by endocrinology are answered.

12. Various educational, sociological, political, military and other human studies are enhanced by Dianetics.

13. The field of cytology is aided by Dianetics, as well as other fields of research.

This, then, is a skeletal sketch of what would be the scope of a science of mind and of what is the scope of Dianetics

Table of Contents

DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS                                                                                                        i

INTRODUCTION

How to Read this Book                                                                                   1

BOOK ONE: The GOAL of MAN

CHAPTER ONE

The Scope of Dianetics                                                                                  7

CHAPTER TWO

The Clear                                                                                                          13

CHAPTER THREE

The Goal of Man                                                                                              25

CHAPTER FOUR

The Four Dynamics                                                                                        41

CHAPTER FIVE

Summary                                                                                                          47

BOOK TWO: The SINGLE SOURCE of ALL INORGANIC

MENTAL and ORGANIC PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLS

CHAPTER ONE

The Analytical Mind

and the Standard Memory Banks                                                                 55

CHAPTER TWO

The Reactive Mind                                                                                           63

CHAPTER THREE

The Cell and the Organism                                                                           85

CHAPTER FOUR

The “Demons”                                                                                                 103

CHAPTER FIVE

Psychosomatic Illness                                                                                   111

CHAPTER SIX

Emotion and the Dynamics                                                                           133

CHAPTER SEVEN

Prenatal Experience and Birth                                                                      149

CHAPTER EIGHT

Contagion of Aberration                                                                                  163

CHAPTER NINE

Keying-in the Engram                                                                                     173

CHAPTER TEN

Preventive Dianetics                                                                                       187

BOOK THREE: THERAPY

CHAPTER ONE

The Mind’s Protection                                                                                      201

CHAPTER TWO

Release or Clear                                                                                              207

CHAPTER THREE

The Auditor’s Role                                                                                           213

CHAPTER FOUR

Diagnosis                                                                                                          221

CHAPTER FIVE

Returning, the File Clerk and the Time Track                                            239

CHAPTER SIX

The Laws of Returning                                                                                   255

CHAPTER SEVEN

Emotion and the Life Force                                                                           279

CHAPTER EIGHT

Some Types of Engrams                                                                               319

CHAPTER NINE: PART ONE

Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy                                                        335

CHAPTER NINE: PART TWO

Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy                                                        381

CHAPTER TEN

Dianetics— Past and Future                                                                       479

Dianetics Terms                                                                                            493

Dianetics in the 21st Century                                                                      499

APPENDIX

Further Study                                                                                                  519

Guide to the Materials                                                                                  532

Addresses                                                                                                      534

Editor’s Glossary of Words, Terms and Phrases                                  539

Index                                                                                                                635

What People are Saying About This

Senior Space Robotics Engineer and Mars Mission Manager - ROBERT HOGG

“Dianetics works—and it works for real. In a very technical, predictable way, it frees us from mental barriers.”

Naturopathic Practitioner and Clinical Nutritionist - DR. ANNE DUNEV

“With Dianetics, I found my personal strengths and confidence in my own ideas. I could carve a path forward for myself. I cannot imagine how life would be without Dianetics.”

Actor (Veronica Mars) - JASON DOHRING

“Dianetics is the only thing that truly handled the mental barriers holding me back, irrational fears, unwanted emotions and self-doubt. It helped me understand and resolve them all.”

Award-winning Actress (Traffic, Parenthood, Will Trent) - ERIKA CHRISTENSEN

“I love what I do for a living and Dianetics has allowed me to enjoy it even more! Knowing yourself, having trust in yourself and owning your decisions is everything. Dianetics made this possible for me.”

M.D. Emergency Physician and Former Director of Emergency Health Sciences Paramedic Program - ROHIT ADI

“Trauma doesn’t just heal with time—it leaves a lasting effect. Dianetics offers a way to understand these effects and achieve better mental, emotional and physical well-being.”

Hip Hop Legend and Humanitarian - DOUG E. FRESH

“Your health is your real wealth! And your mental health and spiritual health of self is the ultimate wealth! And Dianetics gave me tools I can use to strengthen my mind and clear it! And find peace at the same time!”

Four-time Grammy Award-winning Bassist and Composer - STANLEY CLARKE

“After using Dianetics I had so much more of a deep understanding of the mind and consequently I felt so much more like myself for the first time. I can’t imagine any artists not wanting to truly be themselves.”

10-year NFL Safety and Radio Personality - NICK FERGUSONI

“After sustaining a knee injury playing football, the mental battle was the hardest part. Dianetics fixed all of that. It helped me get past the doubt and trust my body again.”

Interviews

“We have around us today many problems: problems of the criminal, war, individual illness and juvenile delinquency.   We are faced with very intimate and vital problems which we are not, as a large society, adequately solving.  Dianetics has introduced into the society a technique by which it is possible to increase the potential working groups in the country.

            “I would like to tell you a little more about Dianetics, its general ability to remedy some of the troubles and problems with which the community, the individual, the nation are faced.   We have quite a few things in this society today which need remedying, and we are in a little bit better position to remedy these things.

            “Dianetics is a series of techniques, tested on an engineering basis, which do things with the science of thought.   You hear people say, ‘Dianetics?  This is probably just another idea.   If we sleep on featherbeds we will all be much healthier, etc.’  This is the sort of thing that has been going on in the past about thought itself: ‘If you sit with your legs crossed for fifteen minutes every morning and say, ‘Every day in every way we are getting better and better, ‘” etc.   In the past they were trying to sell this sort of thing as a substitute  for a good science of thought.   The public is very justly suspicious of anything new that pretends to do something about the human mind.

            “We have reached the place where we can blow a whole town off the face of the earth, drive automobiles at 110 miles an hour and unload how many tons of weight, where, at such and such a time, but nobody has been adequately studying the human mind itself.

            “Doctors know that human ills stem from the mind.   New remedies come out: ‘All you have to do is take so-and-so and life is wonderful.’  The thinking medical men, however, who have ability and who have done observations on their own, know that none of these medicines are panaceas….   With 75% of man’s ills very little advance has been made…”

            “In Dianetics we demonstrate the fact that we have techniques to do away with psychosomatic illnesses.   People say, ‘Why didn’t someone know this before?  Why didn’t someone know that we could recover all our memories of childhood?

            “One day I ran into a lady.   She hadn’t known who her parents were... Her parents had died before she knew them.   I took her back to the period where she could see her parents.  We found her name, what her birthday was, where her parents had died, of what they had died, etc.  She came back to present time in a remarkable state, tremendously enthused.   Interesting to me that four psychiatrists had worked on this lady and were in the audience.  Two came up and confessed to me that they had thrown this patient at me to prove that Dianetics did not work.  They had worked on her for five years and considered her the hardest patient in the area.   These two gentlemen were more courteous to me after that.

            “I have received a letter from a gentleman in the Midwest who wants us at the Foundation to send him a certified auditor trained in these techniques in order to instruct the staff of an entire sanitarium in order to accomplish what they have not accomplished before.

            “They did not know how thought works, what are the parts of the mind, etc.  As a consequence they could not predict how a person would react under certain circumstances.  They did not recognize that when a nation goes to war it was in a period of madness. 

            “Dianetics is interested in experimentation in order to increase the application of these techniques.   Our research department is very hard at work running a pilot project on a small group in order to perfect these applications of Group Dianetics.  In a few days Group Dianetics has taken an apathetic company and has brought it up to where its income potential has almost doubled.   These things are the vital stuff out of which we hope to make a larger and better future for the world.”

L. Ron Hubbard                                                                                                                                 Radio broadcast given on 8 February 1951

Editorial Reviews

...the wave of interest in the subject Dianetics which has swept the country.

Publishers Weekly

While it is true that Dianetics has become the self-improvement classic, with over 8 million copies sold internationally, there can be little doubt what it has to offer is just what people are now looking for in ever increasing numbers. Reducing stress, achieving goals, improving relationships and striving to live up to one's full potential is definitely the in thing.
—February 11, 1987

New York Post