dianetics

If you're going to include the Book of Mormon, you should at least include Dianetics as well.

Great plan, but it carries the risk that you win an auction and need to buy 1,500 copies of Dianetics @ $10.00 each.

I studied psychology, I guess thats why I see dianetics as a laughable farce.

Hubbard desperately wanted to be seen as awesome, and that alone may have contributed the larger part of the motivation for the founding of Dianetics and Scientology.

There was significant overlap between Scientology's Dianetics and Technocracy.

Ron Hubbard actually believed in the things he wrote as it's so far out and contradicting scientific insight, or that he wrote it to create an artifical overarching framework (a sacred canopy) to hold dianetics together by rooting it in the transcendent (as such I think Scientology is a religion).

It sounds like something right out of "Dianetics," is the patient a Scientologist by any chance?

My first thought was actually "how does Dianetics even qualify for a nonfiction list?"

Two Ayn Rand books and the ever popular "Dianetics" in the top three?

It's very interesting (and pleasurable) to recover a "forgotten" experience in a Dianetics session, which you can do by twinning up with another person that's read Dianetics, or by getting a free intro session at a local Scientology organization.

Dianetics contains progressions of plausible hypotheses to try to make a nutty conclusion look plausible too.

As with Dianetics/Scientology, this is not within the scope of FDA's regulatory authority.

KotakuInAction is one of the major GamerGate organizing sites – that's like telling someone to go to the Scientologist Temple for opinions on Dianetics.