Remember, we’ve already seen a psychotherapy go by the boards. I’ve gotten results with that psychotherapy; it’s called psychoanalysis. Why didn’t it ever take the world? I think they were so busy trying to handle PTSes and SPs on an individual-practitioner basis, with absolutely no rundown, that they could never complete their research. Now, they might have found some of our sub-zero material, if they’d continued to research. But psychoanalysis had a certain degree of workability. We shouldn’t … [Read more...] about Lecture: Handling the PTS (1965)
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (1) (1958)
I'd like to tell you today, here at this first lecture, I'd like to tell you something of the story of Dianetics and Scientology. Some things I've never confided to anyone before. Would you like to hear that? Audience: Yes. Well, the start of this story is probably a long, long time ago. And those who don't believe in past lives will not be offended, because we won't go that far back. We'll just take this lifetime. The story actually starts back when I was about twelve years old and … [Read more...] about Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (1) (1958)
Lecture: Special Effect Cases, Anatomy Of – Question and Answer Period (2) (1958)
Now, you'll find, inevitably, some Freudian analysis type thing run off a case. It's inevitable. But boy, it's so late on the track that if Freud ever made anybody sane by getting the time that they saw a little girl with no clothes on and that made them crazy and Freud made them realize that this was the case and so forth, and if anybody turned sane at that point and stayed sane, I've never seen it. I have never seen it. I have made people feel better by using straight Freudian analysis the … [Read more...] about Lecture: Special Effect Cases, Anatomy Of – Question and Answer Period (2) (1958)
PAB: A Critique of Psychoanalysis (1956)
PAB 92 PROFESSIONAL AUDITOR’S BULLETIN The Oldest Continuous Publication in Dianetics and Scientology Via Hubbard Communications Office Brunswick House, 83 Palace Gardens Terrace, London W8 _____________________________________________________________________ 10 July 1956 A CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS It is necessary to understand first that we are actually indebted to psychoanalysis and its originator, the debarred doctor, Sigmund Freud. My basic, if unappreciated, education in the … [Read more...] about PAB: A Critique of Psychoanalysis (1956)
Lecture: History of Dianetics (2) (1954)
But I decided to investigate human memory. I'd had a touch of the brush from Commander Thompson of the navy who had studied with Sigmund Freud, and who was a very swell guy, and he taught me there was something called Freudian analysis. We actually didn't get much further than that. But I find out I know more about it today than most analysts. But anyhow, that was mostly because I didn't have much of a via there, you see. I had this one officer who had studied with one man who had originated … [Read more...] about Lecture: History of Dianetics (2) (1954)
Lecture: Know to Sex Scale: The Mind and the Tone Scale (1954)
[A]fter he [Freud] worked there on mystery for a long time, why he got up into sex. And then he stressed sex very heavily, and before he had gone too long with his libido theory, he discovered himself into the eatingness band. And the, he parked psychiatry right there as of 1924. For instance, William Allen White once said to me, "Well I don't think that this sexual fixation which Freud had was entirely embracive of everything, because it's obvious that if you put somebody down at the table … [Read more...] about Lecture: Know to Sex Scale: The Mind and the Tone Scale (1954)