Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (1950)

The conditions and mechanisms which hide the engram bank do not vary: they are uniformly present in every patient, in every human being.  The  techniques  of Dianetics  may be  improved  upon-and what  scientific  technique,  particularly  in  its  first  few  years  of existence,  cannot  be-but they also  do  not perform  selectively but are applicable to all individuals.

Hence, if we have an “insane” patient, the fundamental problem does not change and Dianetic technique works as in any other case. The task is to  reduce the intensity of charge in the  case  so  that it can  be  resolved  by standard technique. Insane patients are often found stuck on the time track, in which case  a  holder  is  fed  to  them,  one  kind  after  another,  until  they are  moving  again.  If the  patient  is  regressed,  he  has  become  so thoroughly stuck that he has lost touch with the present time. Any patient can begin to relive instead of merely return and the auditor, as the remedy for this, merely snaps at them that they can remember this,  which places  them in  a returned status  again.  Insane patients are  often found listening to  one  engram  over  and  over,  in which case it is again only necessary to fix attention and feed them holders until they are once more moving on the track. Insane patients  are sometimes  discovered  completely  off the  time  track,  listening  to demons or seeing illusion. The problems  are always the  same: use Repeater Technique when, by one means or another, their attention has been fixed and then either get them moving on the track or get them  back on the  time  track.  The  schizophrenic is usually a long way off his  time  track.¹

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