This book changed my life. Its narration, its psychology, its… brain rot. For those unfamiliar with this run-on sentence confused to be a book, “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,” is a ...

The cult of dianetics, which was going strong a year ago (TIME, July 24, 1950), has some of the features of a new religion. Its founder, ‘Science-Fictioneer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that his “science ...