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[>] about six thousand psychiatrists: Albert Maisel, "Dianetics: Science or Hoax?" Look magazine, December 5, 1950.
[>] Only six hundred or so: Morton Hunt,The Story of Psychology, p. 660. This number accounts for "medical" analysts, meaning licensed physicians with psychoanalytic training. In addition, Hunt notes there were "about 500 lay analysts in the country and perhaps a thousand in training in some twenty institutes for physician analysts and a dozen for lay analysts."
[>] "The trail is blazed": Hubbard, DMSMH, p. 1.
[>] "You are beginning an adventure": Ibid., p. 4.
[>] "empirical evidence of the sort": Lucy Freeman, "Psychologists Act Against Dianetics," New York Times, September 9, 1950.
[>] twenty to thirty: Hubbard, DMSMH, p. 198.
[>] "poor man's psychoanalysis": "Poor Man's Psychoanalysis," Newsweek, October 16, 1950. The article, addressing the medical community's view of Dianetics, also makes the point that while most physicians "maintain their haughty silence, the dianetics vogue flourishes."
"lunatic revision of Freudian psychology": Williamson, Wonder's Child, p. 183.
[>] "I considered it gibberish": Isaac Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, p. 587.
[>] "any engram command": Hubbard, DMSMH, p. 494.
[>] A five-week course, priced: All information on prices is derived from "Dianetics: Science or Hoax?"Look magazine, December 5, 1950; see also Williamson, Wonder's Child, p. 84. The description of the five-week course at the Elizabeth Foundation is drawn from Look as well as from "After Hours," Harper's, June 1951.
[>] A one-on-one session: Look magazine, December 5, 1950, notes that Dianetics sessions started at $25 per hour; a typical psychiatrist's fee at the time, the article noted, started at $15 per hour.
[>] "fifteen minutes of Dianetics": Williamson, Wonder's Child, p. 84.
[>] "a personality, a national celebrity": Los Angeles Daily News, September 6, 1950, as cited in Russell Miller, Barefaced Messiah, p. 162.
[>] "full and perfect recall": Ibid., p. 165.
[>] "I thought he was a great man": Ibid., pp. 182–83.
[>] "You could practically see the AMA": Helen O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 8.
[>] "People had breakdowns": Miller, Barefaced Messiah, p. 169.
[>] "Looking back, it is hard": Ibid., p. 10.
[>] "I became a Dianetic preclear": Ibid., p. 12.
[>] "It nearly floored my auditor": Ibid., p. 15.
[>] "The violence of that sight": Ibid., pp. 19–20.
[>] "I never was the same again": Ibid., p. 20.
[>] Sara Hubbard would later estimate: Sara Northrup Hubbard v. L. Ron Hubbard, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, April 23, 1951.
[>] One official of the Elizabeth: O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. 27.
[>] By the end of 1950: Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky, p. 118.
[>] "The tidal wave of popular interest": O'Brien, Dianetics in Limbo, p. vii.
[>] "The only thing I ever saw": Ibid., p. 33.
[>] The New Jersey Board: Bulletin of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Elizabeth, NJ, January 1951; Elizabeth Daily Journal, January 15, 1951, and March 28, 1951.
[>] the head of the famous Menninger: In the Look article, which compared "dianetic hocus-pocus" to voodoo, Dr. Will Menninger said of Dianetics: "It can potentially do a great deal of harm. It is obvious that the mathematician-writer has oversimplified the human personality, both as to its structure and function. He has made inordinate and very exaggerated claims in his results." In addition, Dr. Jack A. Dunagin, of the Menninger Foundation, made the point that while patients may experience some temporary relief, "the greatest harm to a person would come, not because of the vicious nature of dianetic therapy, but because ... it will lead them away from treatment which they may badly need."
[>] resigned from the foundation: Another reason Winter resigned was his frustration that no research was being done at the foundation. Ceppos joined him as support. Campbell, however, did seem to cite money