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Scientology’s war on psychiatry

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C C Offline
https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/t...alien-hunt

EXCERPTS: Hubbard did not launch his career by disparaging psychiatrists as individuals or psychiatry as a profession. [...] Even after Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science was harshly criticized by the mental-health community, Hubbard still saw psychiatry and medicine in general as merely rival professions well into the 1950s...

[...] It was not until Scientology had successfully been inaugurated as a religion that Hubbard’s message about psychiatry became harder and more accusatory. This step likely represented a bitter failure for Hubbard, given his extensive background in science fiction, his educational pursuits in engineering, and his quixotic efforts to market Dianetics as a coldly scientific, rational enterprise. Hubbard’s change of heart was initially expressed in the spring of 1955, using expressions of haughty condescension:

"Psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical doctors] are entirely in error when they express the opinion that Scientologists are against them. Scientology does not consider them sufficiently important to be against. … We have no quarrel with a psychiatrist any more than we should quarrel with a barbarian because he had never heard of nuclear physics."


This contemptuous language is a gateway into the start of a far more destructive process: instead of being seen as a realistic rival, psychiatry was now a pernicious quack science to be diminished, trivialized, and later rejected.

[...] A summary of Hubbard’s maturing anti-psychiatry ideology is seen in his Professional Auditor’s Bulletin—“Psychiatrists”—published on September 30th, 1955. Here, Hubbard deployed the age-old technique of portraying his enemy as “other” or foreign, calling Scientology “the only Anglo-Saxon development in the field of the mind and spirit,” and thereby suggesting that psychiatry, with its Freudian roots, is a culturally alien or perhaps even “un-American” discipline.

[...] This angry distillation of Hubbard’s thinking about psychiatry marked the point of no return for Scientology. The following year, he began to develop two more specific prongs of attack that have persisted to this day. The first of these was the incorporation of psychiatrists as indigenous and evil forces within Scientology’s bizarre “whole-track” cosmology—a vast, science-fictional set of claims about inter-galactic events that occurred billions of years ago, memories of which can be accessed in more advanced levels of auditing...

[...] The second angle of attack that became clearer in 1956 is more earthly and has remained central to Scientology ever since: the idea of psychiatry as a greedy and immoral money-making enterprise... (MORE - missing details)
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"Psychiatry: An Industry of Death is a museum in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, that has also hosted several touring exhibitions.[1] It is owned and operated by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an anti-psychiatry organization founded by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. The museum is located at 6616 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Entry is free.[2]

The opening event on December 17, 2005,[3] was attended by well-known Scientologists such as Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Jenna Elfman, Danny Masterson, Giovanni Ribisi, Catherine Bell, and Anne Archer,[4] as well as former Scientologist Leah Remini.

The museum is dedicated to criticizing what it describes as "an industry driven entirely by profit".[5] It has a variety of displays and exhibits that highlight physical psychiatric treatments, such as restraints, psychoactive drugs, electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery (including lobotomy, a procedure abandoned in the 1960s[6][7])."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry...y_of_Death


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confused2 Offline
Kind'a like the relationship between the squirrel and the nut tree.
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Syne Offline
And yet Scientology has been saying that there's no evidence of chemical imbalances in the brain for decades, and it took psychiatry til this year to figure that out...or admit it.
Sometimes truth can be found in odd places.
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(Oct 19, 2022 11:44 PM)Syne Wrote: And yet Scientology has been saying that there's no evidence of chemical imbalances in the brain for decades, and it took psychiatry til this year to figure that out...or admit it.
Sometimes truth can be found in odd places.

A broken clock is right twice a day. That doesn't mean it is working. Scientology's denial of the brain chemical imbalance theory of mental illness was replaced by an even more absurd belief in past life negative traumas of being an alien entity needing reprogramming with what appears to be nothing more than an oversensitive ohm meter. Talk about making tons of money on some bullshit theory. Scientology is the perfect example of such.
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Pales in comparison to the psychiatric pharma.
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