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Dec 18, 1950
The Year in Books — TIME Magazine
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TIME Magazine Critics may know what readers should read, but it is the booksellers who are sure they know what readers want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore . . ."
Four months later, as though ...
Dec 5, 1950
Dianetics: Science or Hoax? — Look
Dec 1, 1950
The hermit scientist — Antioch Review
Oct 29, 1950
Since "Dianetics" became a national craze, Americans are asking: // Can we doctor our minds at home? // ... but psychiatrists think there may be danger in dianetics — Oakland TribuneMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
W. A. Sprague ,
Roland Wild Source:
Oakland Tribune THERE'S BEEN NOTHING like it since Canasta, Aimee McPherson, and the Pyramid Clubs. It's the new "science"—some call it cult—of dianetics, called by its founder and major prophet, L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, 39, "the most clearly presented method of psychotherapy and self-improvement ever invented." Not one to court undue modesty, Hubbard flatly compares the creation of dianetics to the discovery of fire and the wheel. Hubbard's crusade started last May with the publication of a 452-page book (now known to ...
Oct 17, 1950
Book is clever, disarming — Post-StandardMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dylan Welch Source:
Post-Standard To the Editor of the Post-Standard: It has now been six months since the publication of "Dianetics—The Modern Science of Mental Health," by L. Ron Hubbard. That it is well written and provocative is indicated by its present status as a best seller in the non-fiction class. That the arguments presented are cogent to a considerable extent is shown by the failure of critics to deal with them. According to "Dianetics" the mind has two parts, the analytical or "conscious" mind, ...
Oct 16, 1950
Poor Man's Psychoanalysis — Newsweek
Oct 2, 1950
Hollywood has a cure-all — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)More: news.google.com
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) LOS ANGELES.—The latest craze in Hollywood—and therefore in a substantial part of America—is known as dianetics. It is described as "the new science of the mind," and the poor man's psycho-analysis"; and it has caused more of a commotion in the film city than anything since kidney-shaped swimming pools. DIANETICS is claimed to be a cure for alcoholism, colds, ulcers, and bad films; and a means of reducing Hollywood divorce and suicide rates. It preaches the belief that a patient can ...
Sep 16, 1950
Psychologists Hit "Dianetics" — Publisher's Weekly
Sep 15, 1950
Lo, the Poor Scientific Mind! - Dianetics Has Caught the Public Fancy and Left the Solemn Academic — Fortnight
Sep 11, 1950
Correspondence // No authority — The New RepublicMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Frederick L. Schuman Source:
The New Republic SIR: To Dr. Martin Gumpert and to all who may be disposed to take seriously his tirade against
Dianetics (
the NR, August 14 ) I commend the words of advice attributed to Oliver Cromwell: "I beseech ye, in the bowels of Christ, to consider whether ye may not be mistaken." In vain I warned the Literary Editor of the
NR a month ago NOT to submit this book to review by an "Authority" unwilling to put its postulates to a test. ...
Sep 9, 1950
Psychologists act against Dianetics — New York Times
Sep 3, 1950
'Dianetics' - For seekers of prefabricated happiness — Herald TribuneMore: erich-fromm.de
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erich Fromm Source:
Herald Tribune Never have people been more interested in psychology and the art of living than today. The appeal which books dealing with these subjects have is a symptom of a serious concern with the human rather than with the material aspects of living. But among these books are some which satisfy the need for rational guidance and others appealing to readers who look for prefabricated happiness and miracle cures. Dianetics is the latest in this series of books and the author uses ...
Aug 21, 1950
Books industry: Best seller — NewsweekMore: link
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Newsweek The first book since Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" to show signs of becoming a runaway best seller is a 452-page work, published May 15 by Hermitage House, that projects a new science of mental health. Called "Dianetics," it is the work of L. (for Lafayette) Ron Hubbard, a 39-year-old civil engineer, radio and film writer, veteran of the armed services, and successful author of scientific fiction. According to Hubbard, memory is not a faculty of the mind alone, but ...
Aug 14, 1950
Letters // Dianetics: Believe it or not — TIME MagazineMore: link
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TIME Magazine [...] Sir: We think, even though your description of the mechanics of Ron Hubbard's
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health [
TIME, July 24 ] is fair and accurate enough, that as a whole your treatment is . . . unduly derisive. While it is probable that there are people who make a cult of dianetics, that fact is irrelevant. The only issue is whether or not it works toward making people more happy and more sane . . . Sane ...
Aug 14, 1950
The Dianetics craze — The New RepublicMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Martin Gumpert Source:
The New Republic It is not so much the content of this book which deserves analysis as its effect on the average reader's mind. Dianetics has been steadily climbing on the best-seller list since its publication, and, next to the spectacular success of the Velikovsky book, its popularity is the most frightening proof of the confusion of the contemporary mind and its tendency to fall prey to pseudo-scientific concepts. The book opens with the statement: "The creation of dianetics is a milestone for Man ...
Aug 5, 1950
A cure for all ills — The NationMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Milton R. Sapirstein Source:
The Nation DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH . By L. Ron Hubbard. Hermitage House. $4. ORDINARILY, a new book which offers a generalized cure for all the ills of mankind — guaranteed, within twenty hours — would not be reviewed in these columns. This new book on "Dianetics," by L. Ron Hubbard, however, is in a class by itself. In the first place, the author seems honestly to believe what he has written. His own powerful conviction, in turn, seems to have ...
Jul 24, 1950
Of Two Minds — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
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TIME Magazine A new cult is smoldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. Demand was especially heavy on the West Coast. Bookstores in Los Angeles were selling Dianetics on an under-the-counter basis. Armed with the manual, which they called simply "The Book," fanatical converts overflowed Saturday night meetings in Hollywood, held dianetics parties, formed clubs, and "audited" (treated) each other. In many ways, dianetics-("the ...
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