dianetics
n. a controversial therapeutic technique claiming to treat, according to its founder, “all inorganic mental ills and all inorganic psychosomatic ills, with assurance of complete cure.” Dianetics has been largely discredited within the fields of psychology and psychiatry. [introduced in 1950 by L(afayette) Ron(ald) Hubbard (1911–1986), U.S. science-fiction writer and subsequent founder of Scientology]