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“No, you see, here’s the problem,” Cruise said. “You don’t know the history of
psychiatry. I do.”
Lauer was taken aback by Cruise’s aggressiveness, but he pressed on. “Do you
examine the possibility that these things do work for some people? That yes, there are
abuses, and yes, maybe they’ve gone too far in some areas. Maybe there are too many
kids on Ritalin. Maybe electric shock—”
“Too many kids on Ritalin?” Cruise said, shaking his head. “Matt.”
“Aren’t there examples where it works?”
“Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even—you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is.”
He said there were ways that Shields could solve her depression—he mentioned diet and
exercise—other than drugs. “And there are ways of doing it without that, so that we
don’t end up in a brave new world. The thing that I’m saying about Brooke is that
there’s misinformation, okay. And she doesn’t understand the history of psychiatry. She
doesn’t understand in the same way that you don’t understand it, Matt.”
SCIENTOLOGY’S HISTORY OF psychiatry holds it responsible for many of the ills that have
aected humanity—war, racism, ethnic cleansing, terrorism—all in the pursuit of social
control and prot. The church has opened an exhibit, “Psychiatry: An Industry of
Death,” on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It describes the often grisly and benighted
practices that have characterized the evolution of the profession, including madhouses,
lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and the proliferation of psychiatric drugs to treat
spurious diagnoses. Scientology views this history as a long march by psychiatrists to
manipulate human behavior and institute world government.
Although it’s not included in the exhibit, Hubbard’s chronology of psychiatry actually
begins “ve billion years ago” with the development of a particular technique that was
developed “in the Maw Confederation of the Sixty-third Galaxy”:
Take a sheet of glass and put it in front of the preclear—clear, very clear glass—which is supercooled, preferably
about a −100 centigrade. You got that? Supercooled, you know? And then put the preclear right in front of this
supercooled sheet of glass and suddenly shove his face into the glass.…
Takes about twenty seconds, then, to accomplish a total brainwash of a case.
Now, if you wish to play God, as the whole-track psychiatrist did at that time, all you have to say at this time is, of
course, “Go to Earth and be president,” or something like that, you know? And a thetan, being properly brainwashed
now, will take off, and that’s that.
Hubbard also blamed psychiatrists, allied with the tyrant Xenu, for carrying out
genocide in the Galactic Confederacy seventy-ve million years ago. There are obvious
parallels in this legend with the Nazi regime, which used doctors, including psychiatrists,
to carry out the extermination of the mentally ill, along with homosexuals, Gypsies, and
Jews; and also by the Soviet government, which employed psychiatrists to diagnose
political dissidents and lock them away. Hubbard lived through these shameful events,
and they no doubt colored his imagination.