Scientologists have some points about psychiatry.

Your entire premise falls apart the minute you move past this to even offer 0.01% of a defense of Scientology. The active worship of Emperor Palpatine of Naboo as the Living God of the Universe has as much social, ethical, moral, and plausibility value as the whole of Scientology combined.

ALL HAIL XENU

In before Steven from the CCHR shows up .. he's been manifesting over to the Capitol Hill blog ...
They put up a good fight, but it's as loose-leaf as their "solutions" to the problem of mental health. Their smoking gun between psychiatry and Auchwitz: the American father of psychiatry, Benjamin Rush, was an early proponent of evolutionary breeding, which could be called eugenics. (He was also a premature opponent to slavery, but the CCHR isn't going to tell you that.)
I urge you to read their information of what they want to replace psychiatry with. See if you can make sense of it. It looks to me like they expect that all people need is to stop acting cray-cray and get a good night's sleep.

Every time I see 4chan folks with those anonymous masks, I stop and personally thank them for dedicating their time to harass these scientology freaks on 3rd & Pine.

One of them tried to hand me a pamplet and for what reason, I immediatly became enraged and slapped the pamplet out of his hand and onto the sidewalk "Dont you even talk to me jerk!". Very odd, im normally not that hostile to other religions and im a former Jehovas Witness (my dad pulled us out of that cult when i was 6).

Any religion that requires money up front, is an obvious scam.

I was wondering when y'all were gonna post about this. I assumed it was Zenu related. They've got a billboard truck with "psychiatry...death" back in the parking lot too.

Thanks for braving Zenu's lair for us!

They may not have been mentioning anything about Scientology, but the whole sidewalk has fairly reeked of Xenu's spoor every time I walked by the place.

I see these guys giving out free personality tests sometimes at Westlake center. They dress like valets and I laugh as I pass buy. They must take this as a sign of interest because they always approach me after I smile. I can't help it.

@ 3,6 -- Every time I pass their office downtown on the #14, it makes me feel angry. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.

@4 -- I got a smile on my face the very first day I saw their poster. I knew what was up thanks to that BBC reporter John Sweeney who they tried to smear with the YouTube screaming video.

Why do people need to believe so much nonsense? Not just Scientology, all of them. Why isn't there enough wonder and beauty in the real universe for people?

Scientology has done more to undermine legitimate, genuine critique and criticism of psychology and psychiatry than the APA and Big Pharma could possibly hope for.

Luby, the fact you had to go to a scientology exibit to hear criticism of psychology makes me question your ability to do research.

"Tom Tuttle of Tacoma, prepare to be brainwashed!"
"America's son? Ha! Never!"

People hate on Scientology, but don't mind God on their money. A cult is a cult is a cult. I wish we could print "In Xenu we trust" on our bills until enough people get the idea. Or better yet, Hypnotoad.

I'm no Scientologist, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't just scores of people that were supposedly blown up in those volcanoes. I believe you meant scores of millions, right?

@12- That's the most ridicul...

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

I saw Nekromantik on a date back when they used to show movies at Rendezvous. Man, did we get drunk.

What 1 said. It's true that psychiatry has, in the past, been responsible for some abuses, but Scientology's attack on Psychiatry is purely an effort to tear down their competition for customers. It is not at all honest. Scientology is an inhumane pseudoscience with an especially nasty faux mental health service cult that exists purely to separate the gullible from their money.