War Against Psychiatry

An interesting aspect of Scientology is its utter hatred of psychiatry, calling it a pseudo-science with no scientific background whatsoever. In its place, Scientology proposes Dianetics as a better means of helping people than filling people with drugs and "misinformation."

Scientology goes so far in its distaste for psychiatry and its methods that it completely disallows the use of any medication in favor of auditing sessions and personal rejuvenation.

But farther still, Scientology claims that all the major problems of the world can be entirely traced back to uses of psychiatry. From drug addictions to the Nazi regime of World War II, psychiatry is behind it all and is, in reality, the bane of our human existence.

As a solution to this threat, the Church of Scientology has set out a war plan to effectively eradicate psychiatry from the world:

"Where better to begin a year-end review than with our 2006 campaign to break the dark spell cast across Earth by psychiatry. By way of a recap, that campaign was expressly - maybe even diabolically - engineered to ignite both government action and media blizzard. It's also got an internal kicker, our Mental Health Budget Adjustment Kit, which essentially works like a 'smart bomb' in that it sniffs out psych fuel lines and blows the funding mechanism. And in that way, to put it bluntly, we booby trap the whole psychiatric eco system."
- David Miscavige, 2006/07 New Years Eve event

The violent imagery portrayed in the message, including hand grenades and explosions, shows how Scientology intends to destroy psychiatry through any means possible. Unfortunately, their deception doesn't stop there.

September 11th, 2001, the World Trade Centers were tragically hit by two passenger planes in the matter of hours. The devastation wrecked havoc not only on the buildings and streets, but in people's mental and emotional lives as well. The Church of Scientology responded by actually interfering with mental health professionals, impersonating the National Mental Health Association (NMHA) and broadcasting an urgent help line on Fox News for hours without the network knowing it was actually being answered by a Scientology center in Los Angeles.

After finding out about these Scientologists, NMHA issued a public warning for the police, fire departments, federal authorities and the media, urging them to "beware of these individuals claiming to be mental health professionals, and make sure they are working with credible mental health organizations" (Faenza).