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Summary: Explains the workings of the mind, what else can I say?
Review: Exhaustive analysis of the mechanics of the human mind. Published in 1950 before Hubbard more fully honed his system of mental health, the techniques in this book are nonetheless highly effective for helping anyone who is suffering from mysterious pains and emotions.
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Summary: Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health
Review: I read the book DIANETICS. Thanks to L.Ron Hubbard I have been able to use the information in the book to help me and my friends. Dianetics teaches one about the mind and how the mind works and gives you the tools you can use to do something about your condition, whether you want to improve yourself or do something about the part of the mind that seems to be working aganist you. I have been able to use the book DIANETICS to help others to over come pain and unhappiness.
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Summary: This Book is the Hottest!
Review: I was searching for this for decades. I worked as a nurse. I visited different churches. I studied many fancy sciences at the university - all the time looking for answers that I finally found in this book. It's so simple! I just KNOW that if everyone were to read and apply the information in this book that there would be NO insanity on this planet. This is MUST reading for everyone!
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Summary: Why this 50 year old bestseller rankles a few
Review: The psychiatrist has to go to at least 8 years of schooling to practice. And then, at best, he has a dismal rate of recovery for his patients and resorts to drugging them, because they have "brain chemical imbalances", scientific studies of such sponsored by (surprise!) pharmaceutical giants such as Lily, Searle, and Merck, amongst others. Look at the number of people on anti-depressants and you see evidence of psychiatry having given up on actually trying to help anybody, and just profitting from the drug sales.When Dianetics came out in 1950, many people, including plumbers, carpenters, and housewives were getting real results fixing peoples' mental problems with information just from this book and/or from a seminar. If I had gone to 8+ years of schooling to become a psychiatrist and saw the "great unwashed" getting superior results using Dianetics, I'd probably be pretty upset with the whole thing as well. You just read the book and make up your own mind.
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Summary: A great new way to help relieve mental depression
Review: While there is certainly a great deal of passionate discussion about Dianetics, both pros and cons, I know from my own personal experience that Dianetics is definitely a refreshing, new way to resolve mental blocks which hold one back from living a full and complete life. These days the customary method for "curing" mental illness such as depression, lethargy, and lack of self-confidence is to take a daily dose of Prozac or the like. Of course, what they don't tell you is that these drugs have serious medical side effects, increases violent tendencies, lowers your libido and requires that you stay on the drug for as long as you want to be "cured". On the other hand, Dianetics uses a simple, revolutionary approach to relieve the underlying mental "blocks" which result in depression, stress and lack of self-respect. The best part is that you can do it at home with a friend, so it costs nothing. It worked for me, and it's definitely worth trying before you get hooked onto potentially mind-altering drugs like Prozac. So before trying Prozac, try Dianetics first. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how well it works... without all the side effects.
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Summary: Helps you understand what you're all about
Review: I read this book many years ago and have since re-read it. The techniques worked for me and turned my life around to one where the joys of friendship, beauty and appreciation of life were increased exponentially. See for yourself.
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Summary: This book is amazing!
Review: Why do good people do or say crazy things? What is the reason for so much unhappiness in this society, when technology is making our lives so much "easier"? Why do relationships that look so promising fail so miserably? This book answers these questions fully and completely! I have read many of Hubbard's books over the years, and thouroughly enjoyed them all, but until recently had never read "The Modern Science of Mental Health" cover-to-cover. I decided to do just that, so with the help of a good dictionary, I picked up the book and started. All I can say is that this book has the answers to the questions that have plagued every one of us for a very long time. Do yourself a favor and read it yourself...It takes a little work, but I guarantee it is fully worth the effort...You'll be glad you did it! P.S.: I wouldn't pay attention to the guys that write all the negative stuff about Dianetics, they are the kind of people that spend their time making up wierd computer viruses and spreading them!
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Summary: This is a book that saves lives
Review: I've read this book at least 3 times. It was a huge best-seller in 1950, and has been a best-seller many times since. I first read it in 1968. I've also applied the data in this book -- done thousands of hours of Dianetic counseling ("auditing") on others. It works. By that I mean that when I applied Dianetics to others, as detailed in this book, their aches, pains, griefs and crazinesses (the ones they wanted to be free of) vanished, usually in moments of insight and laughter. Now I'm not a magician or genius in handling human relations. I did best when I simply followed the instructions in this book. The more I did this, the better I understood the theory -- and the sharper I got in my understanding of human emotion, the mind and the path from insanity to sanity. These basics along with what I later learned from L. Ron Hubbard's later works have been so important to me that I sometimes wonder how anyone does without them.
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Summary: Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health
Review: Reading this book was different than most self help books. The book had so much rational information that I found that moving through it (I say moving through it because I found it required a lot of careful attention to absorb the data) actually made me more stable in my day to day life. It seemed to help me to be more rational in my own thinking and decisions. The data in this book explains the mind and the amazing thing I found is that it explains how to use the data to remove trauma that your attention is partially stuck on and this allows you to be more in present time. And it works... big time. This is an awesome book. For more info, read it.
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Summary: Upon Reading DIANETICS a Second Time...
Review: I first read DIANETICS as a smug know-it-all fresh out of college. I knew the case studies had to be valid, but it seemed hard for an "auditor" to know just what to do when to get the results described. Years later, I went over the book with a fine-toothed comb. I dug into the biological terms and looked them up. I checked up on the physics nomenclature. I kept a dictionary very handy. It seemed a whole new book! I can only say to a couple of reviewers who seemingly just didn't get it, that a more careful read will disabuse you of your frustrations. DIANETICS is a text. It relates a technology. It's not "easy-listenin'." It requires personal application. But I can also tell you that using DIANETICS my step-mother's long-standing ear infection cleared up, and people tell me that I look 15 years younger than I actually am. (Shhh. Wouldn't want that to get out!)
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