Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?
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.
Scientologists abhor "treatments" which harm people and particularly dislike it when those responsible refuse to take responsibility for their acts or to institute reforms in their own field. Scientologists are instinctively opposed to those who abuse their power or who harm the innocent and weak. Scientologists particularly object to the materialistic view advanced by psychiatry that man is a soulless animal.
The words psychiatry and psychology both come from the Greek word "psyche," meaning "the soul." The word psychology originally meant "study of the soul." In 1879, however, German professor Wilhelm Wundt of Leipzig University advanced the idea that investigating the soul or spirit was fruitless, that man was simply another animal, and that he could be studied in the same manner as an animal.
Scientologists, on the other hand, hold that man is a spiritual being. Furthermore, by the Creed of the Church, the healing of mentally caused ills should not be condoned in non-religious fields.
Scientologists aim to create a world without war, without insanity and without criminality. Psychiatric practices, on the other hand, destroy minds and reduce man to a robotized and drugged state where he can be controlled. Despite psychiatry’s vast absorption of government funds, crime, illiteracy and drug addiction -- social problems that would decline if psychiatry were doing its self-imposed job of handling the problems of the mind -- continue to proliferate.
Even when psychiatric treatments do not tear apart living tissue, psychiatrists routinely tell their patients what they think is "wrong" with them, thus interjecting the psychiatrists’ own prejudices, preferences and falsehoods into the therapy and so denying the patient a chance of recovery.
A true therapy would enable a person to find out for himself the source of his troubles and give him the ability to improve conditions in his own life, relationships and environment.
Violent psychiatric therapies create not only physical but spiritual traumas. At best, psychiatry suppresses life’s problems; at worst it causes severe damage and irreversible setbacks in a person’s life and even death.
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