Scientology Critique; “Two Disparate Philosophies” 1973 U.K. Review Book; Scarce

Scientology Critique; “Two Disparate Philosophies” 1973 U.K. Review Copy

Scarce first-edition hardcover plus original press release on the publisher’s letterhead, inviting reviews.

Longer title:

“Two disparate philosophies: The Controversy between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health”

Hardback book with lithographed covers. Publisher’s press release will ship folded into book, as found.

Condition: Good. Book is solid, with all pages present and well-attached, and with no writing. There is light soiling to the page edges and some scuffing to the hardcover edges.

Pictorial cover depicts two people in a head-to-head confrontation, with sad or angry looks, against a white background. This book has 326 numbered pages including an index.

Book was published by Regency Press in Great Britain in 1973 and is copyright 1973 by Dalton.

Author David R. Dalton documents a long-running dispute between the Church of Scientology (Scientologists) in the United Kingdom and the nation’s mental health establishment.

In London, Scientologusts took on the psychiatric establishment’s professional organization, then called National Assiciation for Mental Health.

Extracts from the included press release:

“David Dalton has explored the behind-the-scenes aspect of the controversy between Scientology and the National Association for Mental Health ....

“He spares neither side in this fascinating blow-by-blow account of a ‘take over bid’ more dramatic than a mere bid for an industrial Empire; this is the story of two disparate philosophy is competing in an ideological field. “

Inventory shelf 11.

ISBN 10: 0721203698 / ISBN 13: 9780721203690