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32 matching items found between Jan 1950 and Dec 1954. Furthermore, there are 287 matching items for all time not shown.
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Apr 30, 1953
Court bars 2 Dianetics practitioners — Detroit Free Press
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Type: Press
Source: Detroit Free Press
The proprietors of a dianetics school today were on two-year probation, with court orders to stay out of business or go to prison. They are Earl Cunard, 8901 Dailey court, and Mrs. Refa Postel, 16345 Oakfield. Their so-called Detroit Dianetics and Scientology School was operated in Cunard's home until police raided it last March 25. In Recorder's Court yesterday, both pleaded guilty to operating a trade school without a license. DROP OTHER CHARGES More serious charges of conspiracy and practicing medicine ...
Apr 10, 1953
Dianetics pair pleads innocent // Denies practicing medicine illegally — Detroit Free Press
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Type: Press
Source: Detroit Free Press
Two operators of the Detroit School of Dianetics and Scentology pleaded innocent Thursday to charges which grew from a police raid March 25. They were Mrs. Refa Postel, 45, of 16545 Oakfield, and Earl Cunard, 26, of 8901 Dailey Court, where the school is located. They were accused of conspiring to practice medicine without a license and conspiracy to operate a private trade school without a license. * * * DIANETICS is a mental health pastime which has been called "poor ...
Apr 10, 1953
Dianetics to get test in court — Detroit News
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Type: Press
Source: Detroit News
[Picture / Caption: DIANETICS IN COURT—Earl M. Cunard and Mrs. Refa Postel, operator of a dianatics school, pleaded innocent when arraigned on charges of conspiracy to practice medicine without a license and running an unlicensed vocational school—News Photo.] THE SO-CALLED "science" of dianetics will be explored in Recorder's Court April 21. That is the date set by Judge George Murphy for examination of charges against Earl Cunard and Mrs. Refa Postel, whose Detroit Dianetics and Scientology School, 8901 Dailey court, was ...
Mar 27, 1953
'Cure-all' machine like lie detector — Detroit Times
Mar 27, 1953
Arrest gives pair fine new engrams — Detroit Free Press
Mar 27, 1953
Policeman forfeits job for Dianetics — Detroit News
Mar 26, 1953
Police hold 2 in raid on 'Dianetics School' — Detroit News
Type: Press
Source: Detroit News
Jan 1, 1952
Fads & Fallacies In the Name of Science - Chapter 22: Dianetics
Aug 1, 1951
Boiled Engrams — American Mercury
Type: Press
Author(s): Willard Beecher, Calder Willingham
Source: American Mercury
In May of last year, from the modest little town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, came a voice that promised complete salvation for mankind on this earth. That in itself is nothing new, but this particular voice was a powerful roar, worth at least a footnote in any account of our troubled age. It was the voice of a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. Until this moment, Hubbard had been known as a writer of science fiction fantasies. But ...
Aug 1, 1951
Dianetics // A critical appraisal of a best-selling book that originated in the realm of science-fiction and became the basis for a new cult — Consumer Reports
Type: Press
Source: Consumer Reports
Dianetics is the title of a book (and a "science") which, for many months, held its place as a best seller in the non-fiction field. According to its originator and to thousands of dianetics adherents, it is "the new Modern Science of Mental Health." Dianetic research institutes have been founded in many cities, with the dual purpose of studying mental and psychosomatic ills in the light of dianetic theories, and of training potential practitioners or "auditors" to treat sick people by ...
Apr 3, 1951
Dianetics group to quit city because "we're not wanted" — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 275 Morris Avenue, target of a suit accusing it of operating a medical school without a license, is moving its national headquarters out of Elizabeth because it has no desire to remain where it is not wanted. Transfer of the national headquarters to Wichita, Kan., effective April 15 was announced yesterday by the foundation. A spokesman indicated the principal reason is the pending District Court suit. Charles Leonard, in charge of press relations for the foundation, ...
Apr 1, 1951
Dianetics. L Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.00 [review] — American Journal of Digestive Diseases
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Type: Press
Source: American Journal of Digestive Diseases
DIANETICS. L. Ron Hubbard, 452 pages. Hermitage House, New York, 1950, $4.-00. Because a considerable mass of non-medical people have been puzzled by this book, and some of them seek the opinion of physicians with respect to its value, it might be an advantage if the physician could have it appraised without being forced to read it. This review, made for that purpose, takes the attitude that Hubbard has not produced any scientific proof to support his theories, and consequently "dianetics ...
Mar 30, 1951
Zilboorg denounces 'Dianetics' at forum — New York Times
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Type: Press
Source: New York Times
The practice of "dianetics," a theory for the treatment of psychosomatic and other ills, was attacked as "dangerous" last night by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, psychiatrist, at a meeting held under the auspices of the Physicians' Forum at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103d Street. The attack on "dianetics," the theories of which are expounded in a best-selling book of that name by L. Ron Hubbard, was said by a spokesman for the Physicians' Forum to have been the ...
Mar 28, 1951
Dianetics charges to be amplified — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
The State Board of Medical Examiners, which has filed a District Court suit against the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 275 Morris Avenue, yesterday promised to give the foundation more specific details in its charge that the Elizabeth organization is conducting a medical school contrary to the law. The trial date is set for May 15. The case came before District Court Judge Milton A. Feller on a motion by George Meier, of Bloomfield, attorney for the Hubbard Foundation. Under court rules, ...
Feb 15, 1951
Dianetics unit sued by state // Hubbard Foundation called medical school without license in complaint [exact date unknown] — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
ELIZABETH — The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., will go on trial in part one of Union County District Court February 19 to answer charges by the State Board of Medical Examiners that it operated a medical school without a license. L. Ron Hubbard, author of "Dianetics," a book that explains his "new science of the mind," set up headquarters of the foundation at 275 Morris avenue last July. At that time, Hubbard announced his organization would train "auditors" to administer ...
Feb 12, 1951
Dianetics founder challenges psychiatry to mental duel — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
L. Ron Hubbard, of Elizabeth, founder of the controversial new mental health science of dianetics, today hurled a challenge at the psychiatric profession, many members of which have sharply criticized his theories. Mr. Hubbard, organizer of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation at 275 Morris avenue, suggested that two impartial judges select two neurotic individuals, without previous advice from either psychiatrists or dianeticists. The psychiatrists would treat the patients for a week, under his proposal, with psychometries — tests, to the laymen ...
Jan 15, 1951
New Jersey starts action against Dianetics — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Type: Press
Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., was accused of operating a school for treatment of disease without a license in a complaint by the State Board of Medical Examiners docketed today in Part I of District Court. The complaint was served on C. Parker Morgan, 275 Morris avenue, registered agent. The board, acting through attorney general Theodore D. Parsons, specifically charged that the foundation violated R.S. 18:20-18. The foundation is required to file an answer by Thursday. Otherwise the state may ...
Jan 1, 1951
A Doctor's Report on DIANETICS — Julian Press, Inc.
Jan 1, 1951
Review of Dianetics — Scientific American
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 Tribune
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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-Standard
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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)
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Type: Press
Source: 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 15, 1950
Lo, the Poor Scientific Mind! - Dianetics Has Caught the Public Fancy and Left the Solemn Academic — Fortnight
Sep 9, 1950
Psychologists act against Dianetics — New York Times
Sep 3, 1950
'Dianetics' - For seekers of prefabricated happiness — Herald Tribune
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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 14, 1950
Letters // Dianetics: Believe it or not — TIME Magazine
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Type: Press
Source: 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 ...
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Aug 14, 1950
The Dianetics craze — The New Republic
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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 ...
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