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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

Behind the Bastards

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Repackaging Therapy: The Power of Sharing Feelings

Memories, especially negative ones, can significantly impact mental well-being, highlighting the importance of how they are processed in our minds. Dianetics aimed to address this by proposing a form of auditing therapy designed to help individuals refile misfiled memories, shedding light on the potential for therapeutic approaches that encourage emotional expression. In the 1940s, a medical doctor observed that engaging in these sessions led to noticeable improvements in the participants' moods, making them feel more relaxed and cheerful. This suggests that although the methodology may have been controversial, the act of sharing feelings and discussing personal experiences provided real psychological benefits, particularly in an era when emotional expression, especially among men, was uncommon.

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