Sarah Jane

It's a bit of a wild turn of events for him.

He writes to them, After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in civil life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own competence.

My last physician informed me that it might be very helpful if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by a psychoanalyst.

Toward the end of my service, I avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected.

I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations and have newly come to realise that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate myself at all.

Would you please help me?

And he begins in, this is kind of an interesting turn of events, right?

And he begins writing and publishing his stories again and seeking psychiatric help for what would later be diagnosed in 1951 as paranoid schizophrenia.

And that's according to his second wife as well.

Whether or not this diagnosis is accurate, we obviously can't be sure, but many historians have discussed a likelihood around Hubbard having a psychotic disorder of some sort.

Now, throughout these years, very little is known about what Hubbard was up to.

He reported being in and out of medical care and that he was placed as a peer counsellor to some fellow veterans at a psychiatric care facility.

But over this time, he becomes deeply critical of psychiatry.

He calls the profession abusive, unscientific and morally bankrupt.

And Hubbard then begins investigating his own new scientific theory on his friends, inviting them to lie on the couch with their eyes closed.

He asks them to recount their traumatic life moments and has this really interesting emphasis on memories from their time in the womb.

I didn't really expect that when I was first getting across all of this.

And over the course of these investigative sessions, he describes, one of his friends finds that his inflamed sinuses have finally improved.

And then, obviously, this would of course lead Hubbard to start building out his own psychological theory.

From this, he eventually invents a revolution... And this is in quotes.