Tom Cruise vs. Sigmund Freud

When I vaguely heard about Tom Cruise openly disagreeing with Brooke Shield’s public admission of using drugs to help her with her post-natal depression, I didn’t realize how vehemently opposed the whole group of Scientologists was against psychology and psychiatry until Entertainment Tonight featured the opening of a Scientology sponsored museum that dedicated itself to showing how Psychiatry was an Industry of Death.

A sampling of current statistics and facts shown in the new museum include:

• 17 million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs, which can cause suicide, hostility, violence, mania and drug dependence.

• More than 100,000 patients die each year in psychiatric institutions.

• Annually, psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people with their use of electroshock—460 volts of electricity sent searing through the brain. Three-quarters of all electroshock victims are women.

• Psychiatrists and psychologists have raped 250,000 women. Studies show that 10 to 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients; of every 20 of these victims one is likely to be a minor.

Furthermore, Scientologists, “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.”

Although there are definitely improvements that can be implemented in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, to try and dismiss a whole branch of knowledge that has partially unearthed the mysteries of the human psyche is a bit illogical for a church to pursue, in my opinion.

And, definitely unnerving, for their desire to make healing a part of the Scientology Church and separate from any other discipline seems that they’re hankering for a societal state that’s reminiscent of the Dark Ages when the Church could dictate the state of a person’s well-being.

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