Is this really a problem for people? How do you feel? Apparently the press thought it newsworthy enough to write about the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom on the issue.
It all sounded innocuous enough, until someone found out that the Citizens Commission for Human Rights had been co-founded by the Church of Scientology to expose ethical violations by psychiatrists and to raise questions about the use of psychiatric medicines.
Until now, Newsom hasn't appeared to be an acolyte of L. Ron Hubbard. Milos, however, is quite a proponent of Scientology, and has spoken out in support of legislation to stop the psychiatric drugging of children.
Actually, it IS a big problem. Scientologists want to discredit psychiatry in general. This would serve to curtail all kind of psychiatric treatmenst.
This is from a letter I received a while back, on the subject: "...Scientology people have been particularly aggressive in attacking psychiatry and basically all psychiatric diagnoses. This is not new for them. It is part of their belief system and I have been aware of them for at least 30 years. My first department chair had been a chair at the U of British Columbia, where he had daily protests from the local scientology group outside the department of psychiatry there."
This isn't about 'psychiatric abuses.' It's about a whole lot more.
Posted by: sigmund, carl and alfred | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 at 04:55 PM
No, this is not a big deal. He is hooking up with a hot chick and all of a sudden, what, he is going to start pushing Scientology on San Francisco. Please, get real.
And by the way, I am no Scientologist but it is hard to argue that we shouldn't try to solve kids' problems with psychiatric drugs as much as we do.
Posted by: Scott | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 at 05:39 PM
Scott, see this: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index_np.html
Posted by: sigmund, carl and alfred | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 at 05:52 PM