Scientologists Against Psychiatry
Friday, December 30, 2005 at 08:51amScientologists have opened a museum about psychiatry, calling it “The Industry of Death.” Yeah, so, uh… You know, I can actually get behind some of the points they’re trying to make here, albeit in their only-in-Scientology bizarre way. Many children today are overmedicated, many doctors are too quick to hand out pills, and often people do not pay attention to side effects, with tragic results. HOWEVER. What do you think of their “10 to 25% of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients” statistic? That kinds of reeks of FAKE, doesn’t it? Of course, any time I think something they say makes sense, I just have to remember the whole aliens-and-volcanoes thing. Hand me some Prozac, I’ll be okay. [thanks to jane for the link]
Rona on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 9:34 am
If I’m not mistaken, L. Ron hated psychiatry b/c if a memeber of Scientology went to therapy, they’d likely be told that THEY’RE A MEMBER OF A STUPID CULT. So therefore, it’d be most beneficial to L. Ron if they stayed away from those types of doctors, wouldn’t it?
I’m starting to think that one of the entertainment shows, I think it’s Entertainment Tonight, has some Scientologists on their staff, since they seem to always cover some Scientology-related event.
freakgirl on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 9:43 am
I just found this on some guy’s site:
“Why does Scientology demonize Psychiatry?
For the same reasons they demonize me. So that current victims will not learn the facts that Dianetics is nothing more than a perverted version of the state of the art of psychiatric ‘Advanced Technology’ in 1943 - Scientology, at its lower levels, is, simliarly a refried and also perverted version of Jungian free association techniques that also, has been laced with Alestair Crowley’s satanic invocations which strip you of your conscience, while you are being told you are on the bridge to ‘Total Freedom’. At Scientology’s highest secret levels you are essentially stripped of any money you still have while being made ill by long exposure to the E-meter’s electrical effects and driven over the edge…into a mental state where you are mentally or even physically unable to seek justice for having been defrauded.” [link]
Funny, sounds like electroshock therapy to me.
Maggie on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 10:00 am
I have unreliable information (no source, just hearsay) that L. Ron was denied or disbarred or however they blackball you in the the psychiatric industry…he couldn’t make it as a psychiatrist. So he developed a religion to discredit psychiatry. Anyone know anything about that? Or am I…crazy?
Rona on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 10:05 am
You could never be as crazy as anyone who belives this shit. I think I’m becoming dumber and dumber the longer I read about their beliefs. Yet I can’t pull myself away from the link that freakgirl provided.
Athena714 on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 10:42 am
Is there anything to the rumor that L. Ron Hubbard created Scientology on a bet? I thought I had heard that somewhere. After reading that crap from the link Freakgirl gave us, the bet scenario is sounding more and more plausible…
freakgirl on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 10:49 am
Maggie, I remember reading that somewhere, and I can’t find the link again.
Sandy on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 11:36 am
Athena, I had read that somewhere too. I think it was here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S....._for_money
Scientology is all kinds of crazy. That South Park episode was awesome - ***SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS***
Greater Czarina on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 11:57 am
I know some folks from the SF community who knew L. Ron Hubbard, back when he was just a blowhard, mediocre science fiction writer. He was, by all accounts, a nutball who used to brag at events about wars he was in and great things he’d done…until some other, wiser person would point out that he’d have to be about 100 years old to have “been there, done that.” He became a joke and it pissed him off; hence the “many lives” aspect of Scientology he developed.
Never heard anything about his actually trying to be a shrink, but I’ve heard the bet thing is an urban legend. He was apparently just a narcisist who came up with the ultimate self-aggrandizement: making himself the center of a “religion.”
Douglas on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 2:23 pm
I came across some funny press releases a few months ago that had me scratching my head until I realized they were released by the Church of Scientology’s PR unit. I blogged about it here.
I found myself agreeing with them on all the same points you brought out - and man! did that make me feel weird. LOL They do make sense up to a point, then they take a sharp detour into the Twilight Zone. I believe it is their conclusions that are so wacked out. “Some shrinks are too quick to medicate, therefore the entire industry is hell bent on destroying your mind for fun and profit!” Just a bit extreme. Although there was this one guy I went to that… nah, just kidding.
freakgirl on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Thanks for the link, Douglas. Good reading.