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Scientology has often come into conflict with psychiatry since the foundation of Scientology in 1952. Scientology is publicly, and often vehemently, opposed to both psychiatry and psychology. It offers itself as an alternative to psychiatry, which Scientologists believe to be a barbaric and corrupt profession.^[1] According to the Church of Scientology, this opposition is focused on what they say are the practices of psychiatry: Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public outreach Organization Controversy Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by American pulp fiction author L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics. ... An MRI scan of a human brain and head. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Scientology cross Symbol The Church of Scientology is the largest religious organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. ...

"What the Church opposes are brutal, inhumane psychiatric treatments. It does so for three principal reasons: 1) procedures such as electro-shock, drugs and lobotomy injure, maim and destroy people in the guise of help; 2) psychiatry is not a science and has no proven methods to justify the billions of dollars of government funds that are poured into it; and 3) psychiatric theories that man is a mere animal have been used to rationalize, for example, the wholesale slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II.^[2] Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock or ECT, is a controversial type of psychiatric shock therapy involving the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain. ... An assortment of psychoactive drugs A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical substance that acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior. ... Look up Lobotomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Hubbard and psychiatry

L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology's founder, was critical of both Freudian theory and biopsychiatry. Referring to psychiatrists as "psychs", Hubbard regarded psychiatrists as denying human spirituality and peddling fake cures. He was also convinced that psychiatrists were themselves deeply unethical individuals, committing "extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are full of evidence on them."^[3] Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was the creator of Dianetics, and founder of the Church of Scientology. ... Sigmund Freud His famous couch Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ... Biological psychiatry, sometimes referred to as bio-psychiatry, is a term used mainly by critics of mainstream mental health orthodoxy to describe what some believe are unproven and subjective diagnostic and treatment practices in the mental health field. ...

Anti-psychiatric themes also appear in some of Hubbard's fictional works.^[4] In Hubbard's ten-volume series Mission Earth, various characters debate the methods and validity of psychology. In his novel Battlefield Earth, the evil Catrists (a pun on psychiatrists), are described as a group of charlatans claiming to be mental health experts, who rule the alien Psychlo species (whose name means "brain" or "property of" in the Psychlo language). The vicious and degraded Psychlos of Battlefield Earth are often speculated to be Hubbard's personal indictment of what psychiatry will end up doing to humanity if left unchallenged by Scientology. Cover of Mission Earth volume 1: The Invaders Plan Mission Earth is a ten-volume science fiction novel by L. Ron Hubbard, more famous as the founder of the Church of Scientology. ... Battlefield Earth is the title of both a science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and a film adaptation of the novel produced by and starring John Travolta. ... The Charlatans could refer to two bands The Charlatans, a United States band The Charlatans, a British band, sometimes known in the US as Charlatans UK This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Psychlo are the most prominent alien race in L. Ron Hubbards book Battlefield Earth. ...

A number of psychiatrists have strongly spoken out against the Church of Scientology. After Hubbard's book, Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health was published, the American Psychological Association advised its members against using Hubbard's techniques with their patients. Hubbard came to believe that psychiatrists were behind a worldwide conspiracy to attack Scientology and create a "world government" run by psychiatrists on behalf of the USSR: The American Psychological Association (APA) is a professional organization representing psychology in the US. It has around 150,000 members and an annual budget of around $70m. ...

"Our enemies are less than twelve men. They are members of the Bank of England and other higher financial circles. They own and control newspaper chains and they, oddly enough, run all the mental health groups in the world that had sprung up [...]. Their apparent programme was to use mental health, which is to say psychiatric electric shock and pre-frontal lobotomy, to remove from their path any political dissenters [...]. These fellows have gotten nearly every government in the world to owe them considerable quantities of money through various chicaneries and they control, of course, income tax, government finance — [Harold] Wilson, for instance, the current Premier of England, is totally involved with these fellows and talks about nothing else actually." (Hubbard, Ron's Journal 67). Headquarters Coordinates , , Governor Mervyn King Central Bank of United Kingdom Currency Pound sterling ISO 4217 Code GBP Base borrowing rate 5. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...

Exhibit at Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, a Scientology-run museum in Los Angeles, portraying psychiatry as being responsible for Hitler and the Holocaust

Hubbard also decided that psychiatrists were an ancient evil that had been a problem for billions of years. He cast them in the role of assisting Xenu's genocide 75 million years ago. In a 1982 bulletin entitled "Pain and Sex", Hubbard declares that "pain and sex were the INVENTED TOOLS of degradation", having been devised eons ago by psychiatrists "who have been on the [time] track a long time and are the sole cause of decline in this universe" (Hubbard, HCO Bulletin, 26 August 1982). Hubbard's efforts to cast the field of psychiatry as the source of all of humanity's problems are exemplified in a policy letter written in 1971, in which he attempted to redefine the word "psychiatrist" to mean "an antisocial enemy of the people": Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,880 × 2,160 pixels, file size: 3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Display panel from the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death museum at Worldcon 2006, Anaheim, California Original image at http://www. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution‎ (2,880 × 2,160 pixels, file size: 3 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Display panel from the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death museum at Worldcon 2006, Anaheim, California Original image at http://www. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Xenu (disambiguation). ...

"Psychiatry and psychiatrist are easily redefined to mean 'an antisocial enemy of the people.' This takes the kill-crazy psychiatrist off the preferred list of professions. This is a good use of the technique [of redefining words] as for a century the psychiatrist has been setting an all-time record for inhumanity to Man. (L. Ron Hubbard, "Propaganda by Redefinition of Words," October 5, 1971).^[5]

The Church of Scientology and psychiatry

Scientologists often hold anti-psychiatry demonstrations

An October 2006 article in the Evening Standard underlines the strong opposition of Scientology toward the psychiatric profession: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1266x693, 178 KB)Church of Scientology anti-psychiatry demonstration in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2005 By Legolam File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1266x693, 178 KB)Church of Scientology anti-psychiatry demonstration in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2005 By Legolam File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...

"Up front, David Miscavige is dramatically — and somewhat bizarrely — attacking psychiatrists, his words backed by clips from a Scientology-produced DVD are broadcast on four giant high-definition TV screens and sensationally called: Psychiatry: an industry of death [...]. A woman is safer in a park at midnight than on a psychiatrist's couch," booms Miscavige, backed by savage graphics of psychiatrists — or "psychs" as he calls them — being machine-gunned out of existence".^[6]

Warning sign at Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, a Scientology-run museum in Los Angeles

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Legal waivers

Following legal actions involving the Church of Scientology's relationship with its members, it has become standard practice within the church for members to sign lengthy legal contracts and waivers before engaging in Scientology services. In 2003, a series of media reports examined the legal contracts required by Scientology, which state that, among other things, Scientology followers deny any and all psychiatric care that their doctors may prescribe to them: Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

"I do not believe in or subscribe to psychiatric labels for individuals. It is my strongly held religious belief that all mental problems are spiritual in nature and that there is no such thing as a mentally incompetent person — only those suffering from spiritual upset of one kind or another dramatized by an individual. I reject all psychiatric labels and intend for this Contract to clearly memorialize my desire to be helped exclusively through religious, spiritual means and not through any form of psychiatric treatment, specifically including involuntary commitment based on so-called lack of competence. Under no circumstances, at any time, do I wish to be denied my right to care from members of my religion to the exclusion of psychiatric care or psychiatric directed care, regardless of what any psychiatrist, medical person, designated member of the state or family member may assert supposedly on my behalf". (Scientology release form for the Introspection Rundown) The Introspection Rundown is a Church of Scientology procedure that is intended to handle a psychotic break or complete mental breakdown. ...

Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Main article: Citizens Commission on Human Rights

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an institution set up by Scientology, also claims that the real nature of psychiatry is that of human rights abuse. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR; also sometimes known as the Citizens Committee on Human Rights) is an advocacy group established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. ... Image File history File links Szaszcruise. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Human rights violation. ...

In 1966 Hubbard declared all-out war on psychiatry, telling Scientologists that "We want at least one bad mark on every psychiatrist in England, a murder, an assault, or a rape or more than one." He committed the Church of Scientology to the goal of eradicating psychiatry in 1969, announcing that "Our war has been forced to become 'To take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms.'"^[7] Not coincidentally, the Church of Scientology founded the Citizens Commission on Human Rights that same year as its primary vehicle for attacking psychiatry. CCHR still quotes Hubbard's statement that all psychiatrists are criminals: "There is not one institutional psychiatrist alive who, by ordinary criminal law, could not be arraigned and convicted of extortion, mayhem and murder. Our files are full of evidence on them." ^[8] Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of various bodies of rules in different jurisdictions whose common characteristic is the potential for unique and often severe impositions as punishment for failure to comply. ... Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money, property or services from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical harm unless they are paid money or property. ... Mayhem, under the common law of crimes, consisted of the intentional and wanton removal of a body part that would handicap a persons ability to defend himself in combat. ...

Like psychiatrist Peter Breggin, who has sought to distance himself from Scientology, CCHR has conducted campaigns against Prozac, against electroconvulsive therapy, against Ritalin (and the existence of ADHD) and against various health legislations. CCHR has also opened a permanent museum, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death", in Hollywood, California. Peter R. Breggin is a controversial psychiatrist from the United States. ... Background Fluoxetine hydrochloride (brand names include Prozac®, Symbyax® (compounded with olanzapine), Sarafem®, Fontex® (Sweden), Fluctine (Austria, Germany), Prodep (India), Fludac (India)) is an antidepressant drug used medically in the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and many other disorders. ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with electricity for therapeutic effect. ... Methylphenidate (C14H19NO2), or MPH, is an amphetamine-like prescription stimulant commonly used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adults. ... DISCLAIMER Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Scientologists

Also without signing any waivers, Scientologists believe firmly in Hubbard's claims about psychiatrists. Scientologist Lisa McPherson left a psychiatric hospital because of her beliefs in Scientology, and later died in the care of Scientologists. Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public groups Organization Controversy Lisa McPherson (born Lisa Skonetski, February 10, 1959–December 5, 1995) was a Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization (FSO), a branch of the Church of Scientology. ...

Tom Cruise has been extremely vocal in attacking the use of psychiatric medication (MSNBC June 25, 2005). His position has attracted considerable criticism from psychiatrists, physicians and individuals with mental illnesses (American Psychiatric Association, June 27, 2005; National Mental Health Association June 27, 2005 — Hausman 2005), and been defended and promoted by other Scientologists.^[9] Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ... For the news website, see msnbc. ... Due to the epidemic of medical errors, readers are cautioned to be aware that the American Psychiatric Association isnt immune to this. ... The National Mental Health Association is a nonprofit organization that works to study mental health. ...

The Church says that they are near victory in their war against psychiatry. In their treatise Those Who Oppose Scientology, it is stated: "Today, there are 500 Dianeticists and Scientologists to every psychiatrist" and "while Scientology is more visible than ever, with churches dotting every continent on Earth and millions of parishioners around the world, one is hard pressed to find even a single psychiatrist with a shingle on his door." ^[10]

The German Scientologists Thomas Roder and Volker Kubillus wrote a book on psychiatry and Hitler which has been published by Scientology's Freedom Publications.

Bruce Wiseman from CCHR published the book Psychiatry: The Ultimate Betrayal, also published by Scientology's Freedom Publications. The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ...

Space Opera

Main article: Space opera in Scientology doctrine

The Church teaches a "Space Opera" history of the universe to Scientologists graded at the level of Operating Thetan and above. Events are told of which allegedly happened billions and even trillions of years ago (contradicting science's estimated age of the universe), in which psychiatry was a tool of oppression used by evil alien civilizations. In a lecture called Aberration and the Fifth Dynamic, Hubbard stated: This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted citations. ... This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted citations. ... Doctrine Practices Concepts People Public outreach Organization Controversy In Scientology, the state of Operating Thetan is a spiritual state above Clear. ... The age of the universe, in Big Bang cosmology, refers to the time elapsed between the Big Bang and the present day. ...

Jeremy Perkins

Main article: Elli Perkins

On 13 March 2003, Scientologist Jeremy Perkins killed his mother Elli Perkins by stabbing her 77 times. Jeremy, previously diagnosed with schizophrenia, never received treatment after previous incidents with violence and hallucinations. His mother, active in the Buffalo Church of Scientology, felt that vitamins and Scientology routines were better than psychological counseling and anti-psychotic medication.^[12] Elli Perkins (1949–March 13, 2003) was a mother of two, professional glass artist, and Scientologist who lived in Western New York. ...

Counterpositions

Critics of Scientology have pointed out that Hubbard asked in 1947 for psychiatric care, and that the coroner found after his death that Hubbard had been injected with the antihistamine tranquilizer Vistaril. For the thrash metal band, see Coroner (band). ... A sedative is a drug that depresses the central nervous system (CNS), which causes calmness, relaxation, reduction of anxiety, sleepiness, slowed breathing, slurred speech, staggering gait, poor judgment, and slow, uncertain reflexes. ... Hydroxyzine is a piperazine derivative that is used as an antihistamine (especially for itches), anti-emetic (nausea reducing), and anxiolytic (anxiety reducing) drug. ...

Mental health care professionals are not concerned that the public will take CCHR materials seriously, because of the organization's connection with the church; however, they argue that these materials can have a harmful impact when quoted without attribution (Barlas, 1996). A mental health professional is a person who offers services for the purpose of improving an individuals mental health and/or researches in the field of mental health. ...

Except for court trials and media publications and public rallies, published materials have received little notice outside of Scientology and CCHR; of reviews available, few are positive. Psychology professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi's short review of Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler states: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is a professor of psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. ...

John Kuzma from the University of Minnesota has this to say about Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal: For other senses of this word, see paranoia (disambiguation). ...

The American Psychiatric Association's Lynn Schultz-Writsel adds: Mystery Science Theater 3000, often abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ...

Anti-psychiatry: A parallel movement

Main article: Anti-psychiatry

Some anti-psychiatry websites and psychiatric survivors groups have sought to distance themselves from Scientology and the CCHR: Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill but are individuals that do not share the same consensus reality as most people in society. ... A number of people considered ill and needing treatment by specific psychiatrists or psychiatric doctrine in general do not perceive benefit from the services offered or forced upon them. ...

Despite sharing notable anti-psychiatrists' views on some issues, Scientology doctrine does differ in some respects. Scientology has promoted psychiatry-related conspiracy theories, including that September 11 was caused by psychiatrists ^[15] Scientologists are religiously committed never to take psychiatric drugs and to reject psychology outright. A banner ad for MindFreedom International MindFreedom International is an international coalition of over one hundred grassroots groups and thousands of individual members from fourteen nations. ... A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by two or more individuals or various secretive powers or conspiracies. ... Psychological science redirects here. ...

The socio-political roots of the movements have different origins. Advocates of the anti-psychiatric world view such as David Cooper, Ronald Laing and Michel Foucault had ties with the political left of the 1960s; Thomas Szasz, with the civil libertarians of the right, as well as an outspoken atheist. Many advocates of the anti-psychiatry movement have stated that they consider "madness" or "mental illness" as convenient and inaccurate labels assigned by society rather than objective states, rejecting such terms as schizophrenia. By contrast, Hubbard referred to insanity in his writings on Scientology theory and developed a Tone Scale, to, in part gauge the health of a person's mental state. Furthermore, in his Science of Survival, Hubbard suggested putting people very low on the scale into quarantine, a practice at odds with, for instance, the aim of the American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization, an organization co-founded by Szasz, in end involuntary commitment. Scientology has also consistently evidenced more vocal opposition to biopsychiatry and to psychiatric medication than to related civil rights issues.^{[citation needed]} David Cooper may refer to: David Cooper (b. ... R.D.Laing; photo credit Robert E. Haraldsen Ronald David Laing (October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... A civil libertarian is one who is actively concerned with the protection of individual civil liberties and civil rights. ... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... In Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior and bodily appearance. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dianetics. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (AAAIMH) was an organization founded in 1970 by Dr. Thomas Szasz, George Alexander, Erving Goffman for the purpose of abolishing involuntary psychiatric intervention, particularly involuntary commitment, against individuals. ... Involuntary commitment is the practice of using legal means or forms as part of a mental health law to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward without their informed consent, against their will or over their protests. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...

Notes

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References

• Barlas, Stephen (1996), "Psychiatric Profession Current Target of Citizens Commission on Human Rights", Psychiatric Times, <http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p961110.html>
• Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (2003), "Scientology: Religion or racket?", Marburg Journal of Religion, <http://www.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/beit.html>
• Cooper, Paulette (1997), Scientology Versus Medicine in Scandal of Scientology, Web Edition, <http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/tsos/sos-16.html>
• Hausman, Ken (2005), "Cruise Finds Himself at Sea After Antipsychiatry Tirade", Psychiatric News, <http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/40/15/7>
• Hubbard, L. Ron (1969). "Crime and Psychiatry".
• Hubbard, L. Ron (1980). "Criminals and Psychiatry".
• Hubbard, L. Ron (August 26, 1982). "Pain and Sex".
• Mieszkowskii, Katharine (2005), "Scientology's War on Psychiatry", Salon.com, <http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index_np.html?pn=1>
• Neill, Ushma S. (2005). "Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible". Journal of Clinical Investigation.
• Roder, Thomas et a. (1995), Psychiatrists: The Men Behind Hitler: The Architects of Horrory, Freedom Publishing (CA), ISBN 0964890917
• Whittle, Thomas G.. Behind the Terror. A probe into masterminds of death and violence. Freedom Magazine. Retrieved on August 14, 2005.
• Wiseman, Bruce (1995), Psychiatry, the Ultimate Betrayal, Freedom Publishing (CA), ISBN 0-9648909-0-9
• Wiseman, Bruce. Educational and Social Ruin. Psychiatry Educations Ruin. Retrieved on August 14, 2005.
• Psychiatric Times (1991). "Prozac Frees Ex-Scientology Leader from Depression".
• "'I'm passionate about life' Actor Tom Cruise talks with 'Today' host Matt Lauer about his new love, new movie and his recent controversial comments", MSNBC, June 25, 2005. 
• "National Mental Health Associates respond to Tom Cruise's Today Show Interview", NMHA, August 14. 
• "APA responds to Tom Cruise's Today Show Interview", APA, August 14. 
• Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatric abuse?. The Church of Scientology International Provides Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Scientology. Retrieved on August 14, 2005.
• Bosnia & Kosovo: On The Trail Of Psychiatric Genocide. Psychiatry a Human Rights Abuse and Global Failure. Retrieved on April 9, 2007.
• L. Ron Hubbard pleads for psychiatric treatment. Documents of a Lifetime. Retrieved on August 14, 2005.
• Scientology release form for the Introspection Rundown. Retrieved on August 14, 2005.

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Further reading

• C. H. Rolph, Believe What You Like: What happened between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health (Andre Deutsch, 1973, ISBN 0-233-96375-8)

Cecil Rolph Hewitt (1901-1994) was a policeman, journalist, editor, and author. ... Believe What You Like: What happened between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health (Andre Deutsch Limited, 1973, ISBN 0233963758) by C. H. Rolph details a public dispute between the Church of Scientology and the National Association for Mental Health (now known as Mind) in Britain. ...

See also

• Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act
• Biopsychiatry controversy
• Chemical imbalance

The Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 (Public Law 84-830) was an Act of Congress passed to improve mental health care in Alaska. ... This article is an expansion of a section entitled Criticism from within the main article: Biological psychiatry The debate about psychiatrys political implications is discussed in Anti-psychiatry The biopsychiatry controversy is an ongoing dispute over the scientific basis of biological psychiatry theory and practice. ... Chemical imbalance is a term used as a lay explanation of mental illness or mental disorders. ...

External links

Scientology Portal

• Citizens Commission on Human Rights (affiliated with the Church of Scientology)
• Scientology.org: Psychiatry Unmasked
• The American Psychiatric Association
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Hubbard on psychiatry and psychology - Critical of the Church of Scientology's position about psychiatry
• Those Who Oppose Scientology, Church of Scientology site
• Jeremy Perkins: A Scientology Family Tragedy - The case of a Scientologist suffering from schizophrenia, who murdered his mother