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Dianetics

The Modern Science of Mental Health

by L. Ron Hubbard

The book that launched the Dianetics movement in May 1950, presenting the theory of the reactive mind and its engrams and a method of paired therapy called auditing. It became a bestseller and remains a foundational text of Scientology, which treats it as the first stage of Hubbard's work.

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