Many humans agree with that Scientology is absolutely useless set against psychiatry. This isn’t genuine. Some Scientologists would possibly question my name on this, however I need to apply this text to explain a few things.

There is a difference among psychiatry, psychiatrists, psychiatric practices, electric surprise, psychoanalysis and so on.

As a ways as electric powered shock is going, it is considered telepsychiatry with the aid of Scientologists as brutal and haphazard. It isn’t demonstrated workable or useful to patients. The same with brain surgery, inclusive of lobotomies, leucotomies and so on, which are nonetheless practiced nowadays no matter the parable that they’re now not.

With drugs, sure, Scientologists have an difficulty with them too, but now not because they’re capsules. Scientology haven’t any problem with ache killers in surgery, or even a needed sound asleep pill – as these are covered by our personal Scientology writings as needed to be used while essential. But Scientology does have an difficulty with psychiatric drug misuse, with psychiatric drugs being over prescribed, creating addicts an so on. Scientologists personally would possibly have troubles with the shortage of warnings of the dangers of these tablets given out by psychiatrists, and that misdiagnosis via psychiatrists may also motive mind changing pills to be used in place of higher much less harmful natural therapies.

Some only a few psychiatrists push nutrition remedy, which could convey a hit results. Scientologists will not have an difficulty with this. I will not talk approximately the apparent benefits of weight-reduction plan, as they’re too apparent, and if cautioned by way of psychiatrists, we’d haven’t any difficulty with that. The identical applies to ridding the frame of its pains via damaged or improperly set bones, and pains from undiagnosed tumours and so forth. But this remedy is less probable executed with the aid of psychiatrists. We could have an trouble with a person labelling someone mentally ill for reacting peculiar or wacky because of an undiagnosed tumour and the like.

Scientologists normally do not have an difficulty with psychiatric psychoanalysis, as it is mainly innocent, as long as the counsellor does no longer examine for his affected person and just listens. It may be a waste time, however it is seen as pretty innocent.

But many Scientologists will generally have problems with labelling a person as mentally ill whilst there may be no evidence the infection virtually exists. The equal applies to the so called chemical imbalance in the brain principle. Scientologists could have issues of labelling youngsters mentally ill and prescribing drugs whilst a person most effective sees the signs of behaviour, and has no laboratory or blood checks to reveal what physical trouble may also exist that the kid is displaying the symptoms of.

There are Scientologists who are also psychiatrists. Yes there are and I realize one. They are uncommon, obviously, and more frequently occurring within the jap international that the west. There are writings by the founder of Scientology on how a psychiatrist can emerge as a Scientologist. So psychiatrists are not even averted from joining the ranks of Scientologists.

So the myth that Scientologists are lifeless against all psychiatry is honestly now not proper. But that isn’t always to misconceive the belief of most Scientologists that the exercise of psychiatry is a long way from beneficial and that psychiatry needs strong curbs to save you abuse by using folks who deliver it into disrepute. Certainly I know of no Scientologist who might need to be handled with the aid of a psychiatrist, as the remedy as it stands right now, unreformed, may be risky, and an excessive amount of of it is able to hint to death.