I just wanted to share this -
about four months ago scientology had some kind of road-show in Copenhagen where I live on Psychiatry.
I went to see it, and I can assure you all that it was biased - basically it was an exhibition detailing the cruelties of Psychiatry from 17 century and to this day - and of course there are many true horror stories about how patients have been treated - BUT - the point of the exhibition was basically to convince people in need of psychiatric treatment and perhaps medication that psychiatrist were basically downright evil, and that the answer was not medication or known psychiatric methods... And I think you can all guess what the answer was.
I can only view this as a very cruel tactic to get in touch with people at their most vulnerable - perhaps psychiatric patients - and then offer them the classic cult cocktail of attention, companionship and brainwashing.
In my opinion this way of getting new members is a much more unethical than the normal schemes scientology employ...
about four months ago scientology had some kind of road-show in Copenhagen where I live on Psychiatry.
I went to see it, and I can assure you all that it was biased - basically it was an exhibition detailing the cruelties of Psychiatry from 17 century and to this day - and of course there are many true horror stories about how patients have been treated - BUT - the point of the exhibition was basically to convince people in need of psychiatric treatment and perhaps medication that psychiatrist were basically downright evil, and that the answer was not medication or known psychiatric methods... And I think you can all guess what the answer was.
I can only view this as a very cruel tactic to get in touch with people at their most vulnerable - perhaps psychiatric patients - and then offer them the classic cult cocktail of attention, companionship and brainwashing.
In my opinion this way of getting new members is a much more unethical than the normal schemes scientology employ...
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It's funny. A friend of mine owns a Scientology ethics book that was put out in I wanna say the 60's. The current copy in print has grown three times the size. And yet their ethics have truly diminished.
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Thyge
I totally agree. They have to use these tactics on the weak and vulnerable because educated professional people don't join this evil cult. Look at the front group Narconon that acts as a Drug Detox center and recruits these down and out victims at a very vulnerable time in their lives. Narconon is a joke and doesn't work. Look at Kirsty Alley who got in the cult via Narconon from her cocaine addiction then became their spokesperson to move on to her next addiction ..FOOD. Obviously when she blew up like a whale they removed her spokesperson position..not good PR for a food addict to represent their so called drug rehap center. They teach ethics but are the most scupleless cult of them all.. I would know I was in for 15 years.
Linda
