psychiatry

Scientology teaches that psychiatry is the source of all evil in the universe.

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Scientology and Psychiatry
Jeremy Perkins
Elli Perkins
October 15, 1947L. Ron Hubbard, Veteran's Administration, treatment: L. Ron Hubbard writes to the Veteran's Administration requesting psychiatric treatment: "After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in civil life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own competence. My last physician informed me that it might be very helpful if I were to be examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by a psycho-analyst. Toward the end of my service I avoided out of pride any mental examinations, hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose was seriously affected. I cannot account for nor rise above long periods of moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate myself at all."
February 23, 1951Sara Hubbard, Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, L. Ron Hubbard, schizophrenia. LRH Sara Hubbard informs the national executive officer of the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation that competent medical advisors recommended that L. Ron Hubbard be committed to a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of paranoid schizophrenia. The executive officer immediately reported this to LRH.
December 31, 1959J. Edgar Hoover, FBI, Hubbard Association, Scientologists International, organization. Hoover, FBI, information. In, note, Hoove J. Edgar Hoover, FBI, replies to a woman who had inquired about the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International being a subversive organization. Hoover regrets that the FBI cannot offer her any information. In an internal note, Hoover says "While the Bureau has conducted no investigation of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International, Bufiles reveal numerous complaints and inquiries concerning L. Ron Hubbard and the various organizations with which he is associated. ... Hubbard's wife charged in a divorce suit that he was "hopelessly insane" and had subjected her to "scientific torture experiments." According to the article, "competent medical advisors recommended that Hubbard be committed to a private sanitarium for psychiatric observation and treatment of a mental ailment known as paranoid schizophrenia.""
September 28, 1961J. Edgar Hoover, Hubbard, FBI, organizations, Hubbard, care J. Edgar Hoover responds to a request for information about Hubbard and Scientology. He says the FBI does not provide evaluations of organizations, but he does mention allegations that Hubbard needs psychiatric care.
April 26, 1967The Criminal Mind and the Psychs L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Criminal Mind and the Psychs'.
September 24, 1967Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts'.
September 25, 1967Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts Word List L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts Word List'.
July 16, 1970The Psychiatrist at Work L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Psychiatrist at Work '.
June 29, 1971Public Warning on Psychiatry L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Public Warning on Psychiatry '.
July 29, 1980Criminals and Psychiatry L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Criminals and Psychiatry'.
May 15, 1989Thierry M, treatment, Scientology. He's, eating; Thierry M, just out of a sojourn in psychiatric hospital and still on treatment, is recruited by Scientology. He's soon no longer eating; and working "to walk" whole nights along. "Scientologists have done a tremendous destruction's job" write Ms. M. "Since they cultivated the hate against his whole family, his uncle - he adored him -, his brother, his grandfather who loved him so much, and myself. He said being able to get a perfect memory, saying from his recalls I had made him suffer since he was a small child. That he would sue me. Everything I could do or say to reassure him was only making him angry. Two weeks before his death, he was near to strangle me and had let me down unconscious on the ground. Those people are crooks. They extorted his only money, an handicapped adult pension of less than 500$ a month (2900FF)." At the age of 24, he will commit suicide. [May 1989; exact date unknown]
March 1, 1997Ft. Harrison Hotel, Sandcastle Hotel, Saturday, Clearwater Harbor. Police, evaluation A barefoot woman runs from the Ft. Harrison Hotel to the Sandcastle Hotel early Saturday before jumping into Clearwater Harbor. Police take her into protective custody for a psychiatric evaluation.
April 14, 2005Scientology Group Behind Attack On Mental Health Medicine CCHR is supporting two bills being considered by the Florida House that seek to further roll back the clock on the recognition and treatment of mental illnesses. In House Bills 209 and 909, unnecessary and unproductive requirements are placed on schools and the departments of Children & Families and Juvenile Justice that will make the identification and referral of children with mental illnesses more difficult.
February 23, 2006Rolling Stone: Inside Scientology Rolling Stone publishes "Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion", discussing auditing, Scientology's secrets, and disconnection.