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THE PRACTICE OF SCIENTOLOGY




COMPARISON TO EARLIER PRACTICES

Auditing is quite different, both in terms of approach and result, from other efforts which purport to help man improve his lot in life.

In psychoanalysis, for instance, the analyst does not accept what the person says but interprets it, evaluates his condition for him, reads sexual significance into his statements and tells him why he is worried, all of which merely confuse a person further and have no helpful effect. In auditing, what the preclear says is never evaluated and his data is never refuted. To do so would totally violate the Auditor’s Code. Nor in auditing is the preclear encouraged to ramble on without guidance, ransacking the millions of incidents in his reactive mind and restimulating many, in the hope he might stumble across the right one.

In the more brutal practice of psychiatry, force (physical, chemical or surgical) is used to overwhelm an individual’s ideas and behavior and render the patient quiet. There is no thought of gain or help here but only of making patients more manageable. Auditing bears no resemblance to any part of this field.

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