单词 | dianetics |
释义 | dianeticsn. A system, developed by the American writer L. Ron Hubbard, that has as its aim the relief of psychosomatic illnesses by a process of cleansing the mind of harmful mental images. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > Dianetics > [noun] dianetics1950 1950 Time 24 July A new cult is smouldering through the U.S. underbrush. Its name: dianetics. Last week its bible, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, was steadily climbing the U.S. bestseller lists. 1950 A. Huxley Let. 10 Dec. (1969) 634 We have been looking into dianetics. 1951 L. R. Hubbard Dianetics i. 6 Dianetics..contains a therapeutic technique with which can be treated all inorganic mental ills and all organic psycho-somatic ills. 1954 ‘J. Christopher’ Twenty-second Cent. 140 A group of pseudo-scientific mystical fanatics..who went in for a thing called dianetics. Derivatives diaˈnetic adj. of or pertaining to dianetics. ΚΠ 1951 L. R. Hubbard Dianetics p. xii The main contributions of dianetic theory to the field of psychology and psychotherapy are seven fundamental assumptions. 1955 A. Huxley Let. 24 Oct. (1969) 769 Dianetic procedures were tried..but there was absolutely no recall. 1960 Guardian 1 July 9/4 A series of cod psychoanalytic scenes and ‘dianetic’ games are then evolved. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1950 |
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