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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 2002

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Dianetics

If you've ever felt there was something holding you back in life, ruining your plans and stopping you from being who you want to be, you were right.

The fact is, there is a single source of all your problems, stress, unhappiness and self-doubt. It's called the reactive mind - the hidden part of your mind that stores all painful experiences and then uses them against you.

Dianetics gets rid of the reactive mind. It's the only thing that does.

With over 20,000,000 copies in dozens of languages, Dianetics has remained a bestseller for more than fifty years. Now used in more than 150 nations, Dianetics brings dramatic and permanent improvement to people all over the world.

Read Dianetics and discover:

* The real reason for unexplained pains, negative emotions and unhappy relationships in your life.

* Exactly what is destroying your belief in yourself and how Dianetics helps you get rid of it so you become more you;

* The precise technology that blows away the barriers in your life - forever.

Don't live with insecurity, negative thoughts and irrational behavior. Use Dianetics and get rid of your reactive mind.

Have you ever wondered how your mind works?

Your mind records pictures of everything you experience throughout life. These "mental image pictures" ARE your memory.

Through mental image pictures you can see the past, hear what was said, feel, taste and smell things from long ago or just from yesterday. Your perception of mental image pictures - however vague at first - can be sharpened with Dianetics.

Mental image pictures are used continually to solve problems, imagine and remember things. L. Ron Hubbard's #1 New York Times bestseller,

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702 pages
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English
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Bridge Publications, Inc.
Publication date

September 1, 2002
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4.13 x 1 x 6.88 inches
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088404632X
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978-0884046325
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"Dianetics can remove the aberrations which make man a selfish and anti-social creature.... It holds hope that man may at last dispense with the ugly institution of war, because wars are the end product of social aberrations at the national level... Dianetics can rectify the mental short circuits which bring accidental death, can increase longevity, minimize the pain of child-bearing and present Mankind with vast new intellectual vistas..."

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"...the wave of interest in the subject Dianetics which has swept the country." Publisher's Weekly

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No more fitting statement typifies L. Ron Hubbard than his simple declaration: "I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days." With over two hundred million copies of his works in circulation and dozens of international bestsellers, he has inspired a movement spanning every continent on Earth. All told, those works comprise some 5,000 writings and 3,000 recorded lectures and, as such, stand as the single most embracive statement on the human mind and spirit. Yet the greatest testament to L. Ron Hubbard are the miracles of his technology, and the millions of friends who carry forth that technology. Both continue to grow with each passing day.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bridge Publications, Inc.; English Language edition (September 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 702 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 088404632X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0884046325
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.13 x 1 x 6.88 inches

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With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.
Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.
While, as such, he presents the culmination of science and spiritual technology as embodied in the religion of Scientology.
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R. P.

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2016

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Wordy and unintelligible.

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M ALICIA WILSON

Well worth reading. Positive and Confidence builder.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018

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I am not and will never be a Scientologist yet I do believe in this book. This book can teach you how to feel good about yourself and help you gain confidence. It saved me when I was 17 and now 35 years later I still believe in it.

17 people found this helpful

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Craig A. White

Interesting.......at first

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2010

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Very good book and interesting points in the beginning of the book. Really makes you think. Then it turns into a Sci-fi story.

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Worst Diabetics Info Out There

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018

Volcanos? Bridges? Thetans? E-meters? Thanks to the misinformation in this book I ended up in a diabetic coma for almost 6 years after I mistook an E-Meter for a glucometer.

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Peter Reeve

What?

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2004

What exactly is this book? Is it, as it purports to be, a manual of psychotherapy? Or is it, as Scientologists seem to believe, Holy Scripture? If the former, it should be updated periodically, in light of new research. If a doctor stood at my hospital bed perusing the 1858 edition of Gray's Anatomy, I would worry. Or is the original text of Dianetics inerrant, being the result of divine revelation? If so, they should say so, and drop the pretence of scientific rigor.

What are we to make of a theory that states that psychological disorders can arise from the fetus - or even the fertilized egg, the zygote - overhearing and recording conversations from the outside world? An example given is of a husband beating his pregnant wife while shouting, "You've got to take it!" The poor child that results will grow up to be a kleptomaniac ('You've got to take it'. Geddit?).

If dialogue can be so destructive to the unborn, perhaps we need a new movie rating of FU, for 'Fetus Unfriendly'.

In fact, the theory goes even deeper into absurdity. We are told that "it is not true that emotion gets into the child through the umbilical cord...Emotion comes on another (more electrical than physical) type of wave...Therefore, anyone who is emotional around a pregnant woman is communicating that emotion straight into the child." 'Straight into' you notice, like some sort of radio transmission. Believe that and you'll believe anything.

Here's another: "It may be that a patient is urgent in her insistence that her father raped her...Large numbers of insane patients claim this. And it is perfectly true. Father did rape her, but it happened she was only nine days beyond conception at the time. The pressure and upset of coitus is very uncomfortable to the child and normally can be expected to give the child an engram which will have as its content the sexual act and everything that was said." In other words, a man making love to his wife nine days after she becomes pregnant is effectively raping his daughter and condemning her to insanity.

Such drivel fills the 700 or so pages of this book.

Finally, what words can describe the author's writing style? 'Pompous', 'overblown', 'clumsy' and 'confused' come to mind, but I think I'll settle for 'ludicrous'.

Neither scientific nor inspirational, this thick slab of nonsense will not cure anyone of any psychological disorder except insomnia.
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Daniel J. Albert Sr.

stupid and foolish

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2013

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This book starts out well, but if you just stop and think about what Hubbard is saying, it is foolish.Don't get sucked in by this or the "religion" it spawned. Save your money.

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Katherine

Not worth the paper it's printed on

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2008

A friend of mine tried to get me to read this many years ago. I did and wasn't impressed. L. Ron Hubbard was an okay Sci-Fi author, but as a self help author, he's just full of crazy clap trap. I read it and wasn't too interested in it. Later on, I read up on some of the more crazy things that L. Ron Hubbard taught and I can't believe that people believe any of this! Seriously, you'd be better off reading self help info from a gossip mag than this stuff.

Don't waste your time.

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Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2003

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This book actually changed my life. I found this book from a tv commercial, and read it cover to cover in 3 days. It gave excellent information on how the mind works and an effective way to help people. I improved my life and others'. Quite an adventure for the price of a paperback book. I also reccomend the video How to Use Dianetics, which I purchased.

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ashley osborne

Great book in ok condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2018

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In ok condition not great tho

Nick

Three Stars

Reviewed in Canada on March 16, 2018

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It’s interesting but a very hard read. You have to be committed to finishing it.

Twenty1stCenturyreviewer

Not even written by L. Ron Hubbard

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2015

Awful. How do they get away with saying the book is written by L. Ron Hubbard when in fact it is edited bits and pieces rewritten by someone in the Church? Waste of time and of no use whatsoever. Also, the material it covers is actually covered in other books that are written by L. Ron Hubbard. If I want to read something factual I want to get it from the horse's mouth not from some guy who got the rights to sell the horse after it's dead!

I am told this particular book is a 'hook' to get people to join the Church of Scientology as it glosses over things and just tells people positive aspects of things they push. As a student of comparative religion I advise you not to waste your time on this rubbish.

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Gary Foster

Quite boring and not very clear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 15, 2013

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I bought this for a friend who wanted to find out more about scientology as one of his friends claimed the practice cured him of his illness ... after listening to the programme, whilst driving I really wasn't captivated and it does ring bells of grooming and training the mind to be compliant ... so on this occasion not interesting enough for me

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