A Doctor's Report on Dianetics

Joseph Augustus Winter, an American medical doctor and "psychosomatacist", == Main points ==

According to a 1951 article in Time magazine, in ''A Doctor's Report on Dianetics'' "Winter tries to filter Hubbard's strange mixture and pick out the scraps fit for human consumption". Winter wrote that Hubbard's techniques sometimes harmed clients, Though Hubbard claimed that a Clear had been obtained after twenty-four hours of therapy, Winter wrote that he never observed an individual reach the state of Clear or display any of the unique abilities Hubbard attributed to a Clear. Winter also rebuked Hubbard's "Guk" program, which was a combination of vitamins and glutamic acid that was meant to make Dianetics subjects "run better". == Critical reception ==

The Princeton Theological Seminary called it an important new book on psychotherapy, in Pastoral Psychology. Martin Gardner analyzes the book extensively in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Gardner wrote that the "most revealing" material in ''A Doctor's Report on Dianetics'', were the records of the author's own auditing sessions, which showed that the auditor effectively relied on loaded questions to produce from the client responses validating the Dianetic theory, while ignoring those that did not. Gardner chastised the technique for obscuring the real roots of psychological and psychosomatic troubles. The book was also reviewed in The American Journal of Psychology and The American Journal of Psychiatry. In a review of the book in Psychosomatic Medicine, Frank Egloff wrote that Winter did a "relatively good, factual job" and provided a "fairly clear, dispassionate view of dianetics". and in Frank Gerbode's Beyond Psychology. == See also ==