Although the mainstream press has a way of tiptoeing around it, saying that Scientology has “ties” to its front groups, including the rabid anti-psychiatry arm Citizens Commission on Human Rights, it’s long been obvious that Scientology, under leader David Miscavige, has a white-hot fury against psychology and psychiatry, and constantly wages a coordinated war against it.
"help it become a known and undisputed opinion leader in the field of psych reform...." Major fail there. Virtually no one in the NY State Mental Health system has ever heard of the CCHR. And the few that do know about them all hail from the Central NY area where Tom Szasz lived and worked. The CCHR may do very occasional stunts in public, but there is never any follow up or continuance.
Psychiatry in general and its 'practitioners' do a much better job advertising services and success stories. And they have real successes.
1. For that being around almost 20 years they sure don't seem to be making any headway. Then again, with the number of members in Scientology continuing to decrease there's not enough to fulfill the orders that require Scientologists in those positions.
2. As usual lies abound, including a) that there's no evidence for efficacy of SSRIs and b) that vitamins are not dangerous (because the wrong supplements in the wrong amounts can be super dangerous).
3. They can add positions to the org board??? That's not considered unchangeable Source?
CCHR has no solutions for issues of mental illness and various forms of autism. Replacing psychiatric and other forms of therapy with Dianetics and Scientology would be disastrous. If you have real mental health issues you get kicked out of Hubbard’s cult because they can’t help you. It’s only there “to make the able more able”.
Denice Duff, a wanna be quasi-successful actress who has made her living as a photographer. Classic example of Scientologists with a few credits who now think they are experts.
Isn't this hypocritical??? "Psychiatry [Scientology] continues to make billions from drug proliferation and collects vast sums from governments [its members] to abuse and brutalize people, while the forces of good have not been organized and are not operating at the correct order of magnitude to eradicate the destructive practices."
However, from everything I've read here on the Underground Bunker, Scientology takes in millions of dollars to continue brutal practices, so the above statement is just so hypocritical!
Sure drugs are given freely, not just by psychiatrists, but by any doctor who loves receiving a kick-back from the pharma companies for pushing their drugs.
Psychologists, on the other hand, do not dole out drugs and as one who has experience with them, I feel they do a great service to people who seek help.
Considering that drug purchases exceeded $37 billion in 2003, that would suggest that likely there would be millions of suffering and angry people who could no longer get their much-needed psychotropic meds. What an uproar that would be! Angry psych patients with no meds? I, myself, would be in that unruly mob. Good luck with that plan, $cn!
"help it become a known and undisputed opinion leader in the field of psych reform...." Major fail there. Virtually no one in the NY State Mental Health system has ever heard of the CCHR. And the few that do know about them all hail from the Central NY area where Tom Szasz lived and worked. The CCHR may do very occasional stunts in public, but there is never any follow up or continuance.
Psychiatry in general and its 'practitioners' do a much better job advertising services and success stories. And they have real successes.
1. For that being around almost 20 years they sure don't seem to be making any headway. Then again, with the number of members in Scientology continuing to decrease there's not enough to fulfill the orders that require Scientologists in those positions.
2. As usual lies abound, including a) that there's no evidence for efficacy of SSRIs and b) that vitamins are not dangerous (because the wrong supplements in the wrong amounts can be super dangerous).
3. They can add positions to the org board??? That's not considered unchangeable Source?
CCHR has no solutions for issues of mental illness and various forms of autism. Replacing psychiatric and other forms of therapy with Dianetics and Scientology would be disastrous. If you have real mental health issues you get kicked out of Hubbard’s cult because they can’t help you. It’s only there “to make the able more able”.
Denice Duff, a wanna be quasi-successful actress who has made her living as a photographer. Classic example of Scientologists with a few credits who now think they are experts.
Isn't this hypocritical??? "Psychiatry [Scientology] continues to make billions from drug proliferation and collects vast sums from governments [its members] to abuse and brutalize people, while the forces of good have not been organized and are not operating at the correct order of magnitude to eradicate the destructive practices."
However, from everything I've read here on the Underground Bunker, Scientology takes in millions of dollars to continue brutal practices, so the above statement is just so hypocritical!
Sure drugs are given freely, not just by psychiatrists, but by any doctor who loves receiving a kick-back from the pharma companies for pushing their drugs.
Psychologists, on the other hand, do not dole out drugs and as one who has experience with them, I feel they do a great service to people who seek help.
Re: Psychiatry Plan. Looks to me like an international conspiracy.
"Psych busters"? Like Ghost Busters?
Considering that drug purchases exceeded $37 billion in 2003, that would suggest that likely there would be millions of suffering and angry people who could no longer get their much-needed psychotropic meds. What an uproar that would be! Angry psych patients with no meds? I, myself, would be in that unruly mob. Good luck with that plan, $cn!