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Dianetics was developed by Hubbard in the late 1940s, and it is described as a "technology" and a science based on his theory of the functioning of the human mind. After initially promoting the techniques as a system for curing some forms of mental and psychosomatic illness, Dianetics advocates later disclaimed any therapeutic benefits in order to avoid regulation.
The Church of Scientology claims Hubbard’s first manuscript on his study of the mind, Excalibur was written in 1938, but never published. The reasons for this manuscript's status as non-published include claims from Hubbard's advertising sheets, which stated, "Mr. Hubbard wrote this work in 1938. When four of the first fifteen people who read it went insane, Mr. Hubbard withdrew it and placed it in a vault where it remained until now."
He first mentioned the subject of of the mind, referred to as “Terra Incognita,” in a series of articles in Astounding Science Fiction magazine during the 1940s.
In 1948 Hubbard wrote a thesis later published as The Dynamics of Life that summarized his research and delineated the principles he discovered. He continued to further develop and test a new technology of the mind, which he called “Dianetics.”
Dianetics appeared as a complete system of published self-improvement techniques in the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (DMSMH), a comprehensive work detailing Hubbard's discoveries and techniques. The book was officially published May 9, 1950 and became a nationwide best-seller . Due to the interest generated, a multitude of (mostly short-lived) "Dianetics clubs" and similar organizations were formed for the purpose of applying Dianetics techniques to one another.
In the book, Hubbard covers his isolation of the dynamic principle of existence and provides his description of the human mind. He states the source of all human aberration is the reactive mind and its engrams. He then developed counseling ( auditing) techniques for getting rid of engrams. This is still the technique used by Scientology-trained Dianetics counselors today.
The novelty of Dianetics soon wore off, and Hubbard started to encounter criticism as well as legal action from the established mental health community, whom he had publicly attacked in his book. A great controversy followed and the validity of Dianetics was challenged.
In 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We other books by Hubbard followed, addressing the subject of Dianetics: Self Analysis , Science of Survival , Notes on the Lectures of L. Ron Hubbard , Advanced Procedure and Axioms and Child Dianetics , then in 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati, Dianetics 55! and in 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science was published.
Dianetics presents itself as a systemic method of identifying the causes of and relieving many of an individual's mental, emotional or (psychosomatically) physical problems. Fundamental to the system is the concept of the engramAn engram is a memory trace, one possible explanation for the persistence of memory. Fundamentally, an engram is posited to be a physical, biochemical change in the brain (and other neural tissue) in response to external stimuli, thus forming a memory., which is defined as "a definite and permanent trace left by a stimulus on the protoplasm of a tissue." Engrams appear during periods of psychological distress or trauma, and lie at the root of all mental disorders.
Some regard Dianetics as a pseudoscienceA pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is a kind of counterfeit or masquerade of science which makes use of some of the superficial tr, as it presents itself as a "scientific" system of knowledge, yet fails to meet the requirements of the scientific methodThe scientific method is a sequence or collection of processes that are considered characteristic of scientific investigation and the acquisition of new scientific knowledge based upon physical evidence. Science deals with assertions about the way the wor. Many people also view dianetics as pure science fictionScience fiction generally speaking, is a form of speculative fiction which deals principally with the impact of imagined science and/or technology upon society or individuals. There are, perhaps, exceptions to (or at least, some very unusual examples of) and a practical joke, based upon testimony by witnesses that Hubbard stated he would create a science-fiction religion to make money.
Hubbard in Dianetics states: "[Dianetics is] ... an organized science of thought built on definite axioms: statements of natural laws on the order of those of the physical sciences". Critics would argue that the phrase 'definite axiom' expressess an oxymoron, and regardless, a science cannot depend on axioms, only on hypotheses based on experimental evidence.
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