Hubbard's book on Dianetics had a wide circulation in this country. Despite repulsive literary style and egoistic literary arrogance, it contains information about practices which are of real worth. When I discussed it with the late Dr. Karen Horney, the leader of a more advanced, less materialistic school of psychoanalysis in New York, she thought that the danger of the patient evading the necessary work upon himself and his character by using this method as a seeming shortcut to the goal was very real. She thought that consequently this method was to be avoided. There is danger, but I do not agree that it should be completely avoided. Much of the danger could be eliminated by combining a part of the Dianetics technique with the analytic one, while avoiding the services of professionals of both schools.
-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 85
