Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, sometimes abbreviated as DMSMH, is a book by L. Ron Hubbard describing a pseudoscientific set of ideas, Dianetics, that would later become part of Scientology. Hubbard claimed to have developed it from a combination of personal experience, basic principles of Eastern philosophy and the work of Sigmund Freud. The book is considered part of Scientology's canon. It is colloquially referred to by Scientologists as Book One. Published in 1950, the book launched the movement that Hubbard later characterized as a religion. As of 2013, the Scientology organization's publishing arm, New Era Publications, sells the book in English and in 50 other languages. In the book, Hubbard wrote that he had isolated the "dynamic principle of existence", which he states as the basic command Survive!, and presents his description of the human mind. He identified the source of human aberration as the "reactive mind", a normally hidden but always conscious area of...

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