GROUP DIANETICS

a science of management should obtain optimum performance potentialities and optimum living conditions for the group and its members. Such a science is postulated in group Dianetics. It is not an ideology. It is an effort toward rational operation of groups. In group Dianetics one is looking at the general form of the government of the world. That government will not extend, as administrator, out from the Dianetic Foundation. But the Foundation will probably train the personnel that governments send to it and will probably be the advisor to all governments. (An Essay on Management, 1951)

a theory explaining the observed behavior of people a s groups, with corollary deductions on methods of improving that behavior in terms of the dynamics. It is not a method of processing a number of individuals at the same time, but deals with the interrelationship of those individuals as a group. —Science of Survival Glossary (app 11.7.90)