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L. Ron Hubbard's seminal – and controversial – work was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, written in 1950.
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954. It emerged as an international movement following the work of L. Ron Hubbard, who had previously introduced his theories on the human mind in his 1950 book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.12