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October 15, 2012    
I did a few of these courses over the years in the CofS. Hubbard's ideas are not all well-researched at all. For example, "All illness stems from PTSness" is a vast over-generalization. And his "12 characteristics of the anti-social personality" don't match at all (apart from the remorse one) the traits found in real-life anti-social personalities. And what evidence is there that an anti-social personality is stuck in an incident from long ago?
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Reviewed by Paul Adams November 10, 2012
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Not all that useful in real life

I did a few of these courses over the years in the CofS. Hubbard's ideas are not all well-researched at all. For example, "All illness stems from PTSness" is a vast over-generalization. And his "12 characteristics of the anti-social personality" don't match at all (apart from the remorse one) the traits found in real-life anti-social personalities. And what evidence is there that an anti-social personality is stuck in an incident from long ago?

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ex-Scientologist

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Pros
Useful to understand what is being said in a Scientology environment when people use the terms. Plus the datum that "if you can fight back against it, then it is less suppressive" is very useful when applied to the CofS itself.
Cons
Many of the "facts" presented are of dubious value.

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