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Dianetics
Set of ideas and practices adopted by Scientologists / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the set of ideas and practices. For the 1950 book, see Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. For the article in Astounding Science Fiction, see Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science.
Not to be confused with dialectics or Dynetics.
Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices invented in 1950 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard regarding the human mind. Dianetics was originally conceived as a form of psychological treatment, but was rejected by the psychological and medical establishments as pseudoscientific. Dianetics was the precursor to Scientology and has since been incorporated into it.[1]: 106–107
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