An obsessive compulsive could be classified as psychotic. Trying to hypnotize such a person would be the first mistake. Mistake number two would be to try to assume any state with the man which was even suggestive of taking command or control of him. Never give a psychotic the idea that you are taking over […]
psychotic cases
Lecture: Handling of Cases (3)
On diagnosis, use this for getting deeper into the material which is occluded from the person and you will eventually produce a somatic of some sort, and you are right off to the races on Dianetic therapy. The state of reverie is actually just a name. It is a label introduced to make the patient […]
Lecture: Sound and Aberration
When you are working a psychotic, you will find that you are very often working with enormous sound volume. The sound volume that a psychotic, particularly a manic-depressive in full swing, can pick up is almost unbelievable. One wouldn’t think that a human voice could make such a racket. If you haven’t run into such […]
Lecture: Case Factors (2)
We have to have some quick method of handling inaccessible institutionalized cases which doesn’t hang around the neck of the auditor. One of the reasons I’m cautioning you against the very impractical, strange case of the psychotic as any kind of a steady diet is the fact that the probability is that the problem will […]
Lecture: Dianetics: First Lecture of Saturday Course (6)
LRH [To preclear]: Okay, well, I’ll take you on the track when we have a little more time. Now if your teammates take a note of this, we’re not trying to charge you around into a thousand incidents. Come up to present time. (snaps fingers) [To audience] There is another way to get […]