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Scientologist Lisa McPherson died in 1995 after refusing psychiatric treatment.. Since the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard, the relationship between Scientology and psychiatry has been dominated by strong opposition by the organization against the medical specialty of psychiatry and of psychology, with themes relating to this opposition occurring repeatedly ...
Scientology is publicly, and often vehemently, opposed to both psychiatry and psychology. [16] [17] Scientologists view psychiatry as a barbaric and corrupt profession and encourage alternative care based on spiritual healing. According to the Church of Scientology, psychiatry has a long history of improper and abusive care.
Believe What You Like: What happened between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health is written by the New Statesman director C. R. Hewitt under the pen name C. H. Rolph. It details a public dispute between the Church of Scientology and the National Association for Mental Health (now known as Mind) in Britain.
The Church of Scientology prevented a woman from seeking mental health treatment before she took her own life, a lawsuit states.. The woman, Whitney Mills, 40, was a high-level Scientologist who ...
Scientology established the anti-psychiatry lobby group Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) which operates an exhibit Psychiatry: An Industry of Death. [ 26 ] : 293–4 CCHR has helped legislators draft bills, though bills in Florida and Utah failed which would have made it a crime for school teachers to suggest to parents that their ...
A series of psychiatric facilities operated by the Church of Scientology in Cannon County, Tennesee were raided this week by police after they were alerted about patients being held against their ...
The Scientologist star defended L. Ron Hubbard's hatred of "psychiatric abuses" and linked medication to the recent mass shootings.
Dianetics is a set of ideas and practices, invented in 1950 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, regarding the human mind.Dianetics was originally conceived as a form of psychological treatment, but was rejected by the psychological and medical establishments as pseudoscientific.