16.8 Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
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This article is from the Scientology Catechism, by scninfo@pcnet.com (Scientology Information Server) with numerous contributions by others.
16.8 Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
As the stepchildren of the German dictator Bismarck and
later Hitler and the Nazis, psychiatry and psychology
formed the philosophical basis for the wholesale
slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II.
Psychiatry uses electric shock, brain-mutilating
psychosurgery, and mind-damaging drugs to destroy a
person and make him "docile and quiet" in the name of
"treatment."
Psychiatric methods involving the butchering of human
beings and their sanity are condemned by the Church.
Scientologists are trying to create a world without war,
insanity and criminality. Psychiatry is seeking to create
a world where man is reduced to a robotized or drugged,
vegetable-like state so that he can be controlled.
A primary difference between Scientology and psychiatry
is that psychiatrists routinely tell their patients what
they think is wrong with them. This interjects lies or
ideas which are not true for the individual himself, and
thus psychiatric "therapy" violates the basic integrity
of the individual.
On the other hand, Scientology technology enables a
person to find out for himself the source of his troubles
and gives him the ability to improve conditions in his
own life and environment. The underlying difference is
the fact that Scientology recognizes that man is a
spiritual being, while psychiatrists view man as an
animal. Scientology is a religion. Psychiatry is strongly
opposed to all religions as it does not even recognize
that man is a spiritual being. Scientologists strongly
disagree with the enforced and harmful psychiatric
methods of involuntary commitment, forced and heavy
drugging, electroconvulsive shock treatment, lobotomy and
other psychosurgical operations.
By the Creed of the Church of Scientology, the healing of
mentally caused ills should not be condoned in
nonreligious fields.The reason for this is that violent
psychiatric therapies cause spiritual traumas.
At best, psychiatry suppresses life's problems; at worst,
it causes severe damage, irreversible setbacks in a
person's life and even death.
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