psychiatry
Scientology teaches that psychiatry is the source of all evil in the universe.
More about psychiatry
April 26, 1967: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Criminal Mind and the Psychs'.
September 24, 1967: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts'.
September 25, 1967: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts Word List'.
July 16, 1970: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Psychiatrist at Work '.
June 29, 1971: L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Public Warning on Psychiatry '.
psychiatry in the News
| October 27, 1987 | Ministers Decry Clergy Counseling Ruling | Concerned with what they say is a governmental intrusion into church counseling, several ministers Monday decried a recent state Court of Appeal ruling that clergy who counsel "suicidal individuals" have a duty to refer those individuals to psychiatrists or other authorities qualified to prevent suicides. | |
| November 14, 1998 | Hubbard's Teachings Guide Treatment Of Mental Illness | The Fort Harrison has no provision for intravenous feedings. So, when McPherson refused to take nutrition, staffers tried to force it down her throat. Had McPherson been taken to a psychiatric facility, she probably would have received medication to calm her, psychiatrists say. She also might have been restrained, if necessary, and given intravenous feedings. Hubbard died in 1986, but his anti-psychiatry zeal has been passed on to his followers, who recently began a campaign to "take over the field of mental health by the year 2000." | |
| December 16, 2004 | Psychiatry Center Head Criticizes Church Of Scientology | The director of Russia's major psychiatry center has expressed concern over the effect Church of Scientology programs have on the mental health of the country's population. Dmitriyeva accused the religious organization's members of trying to recruit people affected by the early September terrorist attack in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. "But [Beslan] residents have put up determined resistance against the sect," she said. | |
| April 14, 2005 | Scientology 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. | |
| November 20, 2005 | Scientologists' New Psych-Out Museum | Scientology is taking its fight against psychiatry to the streets - namely Sunset Boulevard. The church will open a "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" museum next month in L.A., complete with vintage instruments of torture, images of electroshock therapy and "rare archival footage of psychiatry's brutal treatments." | |
| February 23, 2006 | Rolling 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. | |
| January 9, 2007 | Scientology Exhibit Won't Help The Mentally Ill | The "Industry of Death" exhibit is sponsored by the Church of Scientology and makes a host of outrageous claims about the field of psychiatry. Regardless of its tax-exempt status, the Church of Scientology is more like a pyramid scheme than a church. | |
psychiatry in the News
| October 15, 1947 | L. 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, 1951 | Sara 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, 1959 | J. 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, 1961 | J. 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, 1967 | The Criminal Mind and the Psychs | L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Criminal Mind and the Psychs'. | |
| September 24, 1967 | Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts | L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Repair List for Treatment from Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts'. | |
| September 25, 1967 | Repair 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, 1970 | The Psychiatrist at Work | L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'The Psychiatrist at Work '. | |
| June 29, 1971 | Public Warning on Psychiatry | L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOPL 'Public Warning on Psychiatry '. | |
| July 29, 1980 | Criminals and Psychiatry | L. Ron Hubbard writes HCOB 'Criminals and Psychiatry'. | |
| May 15, 1989 | Thierry 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, 1997 | Ft. 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. | |
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