 Prior to their falling out, Winter had stated that the Dianetic technique of auditing had cured his six-year-old son of fears of ghosts and the dark.According to a 1951 article in "Time" magazine, in "A Doctor's Report on Dianetics" "Winter tries to filter Hubbard's strange mixture and pick out the scraps fit for human consumption".Winter wrote that auditing could be a useful technique for psychiatrists to use during psychoanalysis and agreed with Hubbard's conceptualization of prenatal "engrams" that traumatic memories can be formed and stored during the prenatal stage, but Winter was skeptical about "sperm dreams", stating they were likely imagined and not true memories.