Psychiatry Undermines Religion

Harming Society
Certain influences and events have shaped the course of religious and moral decline the world over. The materialistic practices of psychiatry, psychology and other related mental health disciplines are at the root of the problem.

German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt unveiled “experimental” psychology to his students at Leipzig University in 1879. Wundt declared that the soul was a “waste of energy” and that man was simply another animal.

In 1940 psychiatry openly declared its plans when British psychiatrist John Rawling Rees, a co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), addressed a National Council of Mental Hygiene stating “[S]ince the last world war we have done much to infiltrate the various social organizations throughout the country…we have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church….”

The word psychology derives from psyche (soul) and ology (study of); the subject originated as a religious and philosophical study. However, as Franz G. Alexander, M.D., and Sheldon T. Selesnick, M.D. noted in The History of Psychiatry, “As long as psychiatric problems were those of the ‘soul,'” only the clergy and philosophers “could be professionally concerned with such problems.”

Psychiatry, re-defining man’s travails in “medical” or “biological” terms, wrenched spiritual healing away from religion.

By 1952, 83% of more than 100 U.S. seminaries and graduate theological schools surveyed had one or more courses on psychology.

In 1961, around 9,000 clergymen had studied psychology-based “clinical pastoral” counseling courses. Psychiatrists outnumbered the clergy in membership six to five in the U.S. Academy of Religion and Mental Health.

The American Association of Christian Counselors has grown from 700 mental health professionals as members in 1991 to 50,000 today.

Psychiatrists and psychologists still claim that man is an animal to be conditioned and controlled. Governments have been convinced of this idea and are paying billions in public funds to psychiatry, despite no evidence of its efficacy.

DESECRATING HOLY GROUND
The following contemptible efforts to label the founder of the Christian faith as a lunatic, and thereby to condemn all of Christianity as mere neurosis and illusion, are provided, not to be blasphemous, but to show psychiatry’s anti-religious agenda.

“In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia.” – Charles Binet-Sanglé, La Folie de Jésus (The Madness of Jesus), 1910.

“Everything that we know about him conforms so perfectly to the clinical picture of paranoia that it is hardly conceivable that people can even question the accuracy of the diagnosis.”– American psychiatrist William Hirsch, Conclusions of a Psychiatrist, 1912 “One may disagree with Schweitzer….He takes for granted that the failure of Jesus to develop ideas of injury and persecution rules out the possibility of a paranoid psychosis.

This is not necessarily true; some paranoids manifest ideas of grandeur almost entirely….” – Psychiatrist Winfred Overholser, President of the American Psychiatric Association, stated in the foreword to Albert Schweitzer’s The Psychiatric Study of Jesus, 1948.

PEDOPHILE PSYCHIATRISTS
In a 1951 article in the New Yorker, Francis J. Braceland, psychiatrist-in-chief of the Institute of Living psychiatric facility in Connecticut, U.S.A., called on Catholic bishops to shed their “traditional antipathy to the teachings of psychiatry and to seek medical help for troubled priests.” With Braceland’s high standing among the bishops, the Institute of Living began receiving referrals.

As journalist Barry Werth wrote, “The Church’s use of psychiatry, or more precisely, the bishops’ policy of sending priests suspected of having molested minors to psychiatrists and psychologists rather than reporting them to the police, has become one of the most disturbing, and costly, elements….”

A study conducted by Kenneth Pope, former head of the ethics committee for the American Psychological Association, found that 1 out of 20 clients who had been sexually abused by their psychotherapist was a minor. The female victims’ ages ranged from 3 to 17, and it was from 7 to 16 for the males.

PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC FRAUD
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the mental disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)—the mental health industry’s diagnostic “system”—have long been under attack for their lack of scientific authority and veracity and their almost singular emphasis on psychotropic drug treatment.

The latest editions of DSM and ICD include religious travail as a new category of mental illness: “V.62.89” (the diagnostic code used for billing purposes) covers treatment for “religious or spiritual problems.”

Religion has turned to psychiatry and psychology at their own peril. Lisa Bazler, a former psychologist and now Christian author of Psychology Debunked, wrote: “[W]e cannot consider psychology…a scientific discipline…the therapist and psychiatrist [can] not objectively measure and analyze the causes and cures of anxiety with statistical repeatability as a doctor and patient could measure and analyze the causes and cures of a broken ankle.”

Clinical psychologist Ty Colbert, author of Rape of the Soul, says that in order to adopt psychiatry’s biological model, one has to “believe in a materialistic, non-spiritual world…the medical model claims there is no mental activity that is due to the spiritual dimension. All activity, even one’s religious beliefs or the belief in God, are nothing more than the workings of the brain.”

Lisa Bazler states further: “Consider the fact that psychology didn’t even exist until the 1800s. How did Christians possibly live for eighteen hundred years without psychology? They lived just fine. Do we know more about living the Christian life to the fullest than Paul, John or Peter? Obviously not, but Christian therapists think they do.…Christian therapists preach a false gospel that contradicts Scripture and follows the opinions of men who hated religion and subtracted God out of all of their theories of human behavior.”

Studies show that youths who are involved in religious activities are less likely to abuse drugs. Among youths who agreed that religious beliefs are a very important part of their life (78.2%), 9.2% had used an illicit drug compared to 20.5% of those youths who strongly disagreed with religion.

SUMMARY
As a result of psychiatrists’ subversive plan for religion, the concepts of good and bad behavior, right and wrong conduct and personal responsibility have taken such a beating that people today have few or no guidelines for checking, judging or directing their behavior. Words like ethics, morals, sin and evil have almost disappeared from everyday usage.

For more than a century, mankind has been the unwitting guinea pig of psychiatry’s deliberate, “social engineering” experiment that was conceived in hell. This experiment included an assault on the essential religious and moral strongholds of society. It could not proceed while man could clearly conceive of, express, and deal with evil. It lies insidiously behind our current social disintegration. And it is the epitome of evil, masked by the most social of outward appearances.

Religion provides the inspiration needed for a life of higher meaning and purpose. As we face psychiatry’s influence on society, it falls upon religious leaders to take decisive steps. Men of the cloth need to shake off the yoke of soulless materialism spawned by psychology and psychiatry and put religion back into the hands of the religious. They must take this responsibility, not only for the sake of religion’s survival, but also for the survival of mankind.

John Rawlings Rees, M.D., “Strategic Planning for Mental Health,” Mental Health, Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct. 1940, pp. 103-4.

2 Barry Werth, “FATHERS’ HELPER; How the Church Used Psychiatry to Care For—and Protect—Abusive Priests,” The New Yorker, 9 June 2003.

3 Ibid.

4 Kenneth Pope, “Sex Between Therapists and Clients,” Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender, (Academic Press, Oct. 2001).

5 Ty C. Colbert, Rape of the Soul, How the Chemical Imbalance Model of Modern Psychiatry has Failed its Patients, (Kevco Publishing, California, 2001), p. 236.

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The program steps are entirely drug-free; that is, the Narconon drug rehab program does not use drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by drugs, but does use nutrition and nutritional supplements as an important component of its delivery. Thus the program is neither a psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of rehabilitation.

Persons enrolling in the program must receive full medical physicals, an M.D.’s permission to do the program and periodic medical review as individually needed. However, Narconon clients are not considered or treated as “patients” but as “students” who are learning to regain control of their lives. This is an important distinction. A Narconon student does not enroll to recover from an “illness”; he enrolls to learn something that he doesn’t already know. He addresses the disability caused by drug use with new abilities, new skills for life.

Narconon staff prepare graduating students with “re-entry” programs to follow as they re-start their lives on a new foot. But the full Narconon drug rehabilitation program is intended to produce graduates who can stand on their own feet and live drug-free, ethical lives thereafter. A Narconon graduate does not go to weekly meetings for months after completion, nor does he describe himself as “recovering.”

A student who has graduated from the Narconon program has recovered. He or she has obtained a new orientation in life. The premise of the Narconon model is that a former addict can achieve a new life. This goal applies (and is routinely achieved) whether the program is delivered in a free-standing center, daily after work, or even in prison.

Once well, if he uses the tools he has practiced and learned to use at a Narconon center, a Narconon graduate can stay well. This is not theoretical. There are three decades of graduates who will swear by it.

If graduates do run into serious difficulties, they return to their Narconon center where they inevitably find a specific part of the program that they earlier failed to fully understand and therefore could not apply in the travails of daily life. But the majority get it the first time through.

The Narconon program takes four to six months. During this time, some might consider the Narconon program a “therapeutic community,” but it would be more appropriate to say that Narconon clients are going “back to school”–this time to get real tools for real life.

“The addict has been found not to want to be an addict, but is driven by pain and environmental hopelessness…As soon as an addict can feel healthier and more competent mentally and physically without drugs than he does on drugs, he ceases to require drugs.”

L. Ron Hubbard

A Narconon Program Graduate is someone

• Who has completed the Narconon drug rehab program;
• Who knows he is, in fact, capable of living a drug-free life thereafter;
• Who has improved his or her ability to learn and thus can accept new ideas on how to change life for the better;
• Who has personally absorbed the fundamentals of ethics and morality well enough that he or she can be productive and contributive to society and will have no further troubles with the justice system;
• Who knows how to solve the problems of life in a rational manner to the best of his ability, without the use of mind-altering drugs.

Each Narconon program graduate is expected, no matter the severity of his or her earlier life experience, to achieve and to live a stably drug-free, ethical life, one for one.

There is no such thing as a “victim” in the Narconon program way of thinking. Even if life has dealt one a bad hand of cards, the road out is through personal recognition of responsibility for one’s own condition.

Results and Reviews of the Narconon Program

The Narconon Program has one of the highest success rates in the field of drug rehabilitation, with outside studies showing 75% of the graduates going on to lead stable, ethical, productive drug-free lives. These results are hard earned by the students, addressing many factors of one’s life, both physical and mental. It is this success that has led to the large expansion of the Narconon network over the past 36 years.

The Narconon drug prevention program has also been shown to be highly effective in raising young people’s perception of risk regarding drugs. We have hundreds of thousands of student evaluations demonstrating this change, including many statements that they will no longer use drugs now that they understand the real effects and dangers.

Their results have been documented by numerous reviews, studies and white papers on the various components of both our drug rehab and drug prevention programs.

Scientific and Research Studies of the Narconon Program

The following links provide information on studies and professional evaluations that have been done on the Narconon program and it’s methodology. Of particular interest are the findings of L. Ron Hubbard’s detoxification program.

• Narconon Science References
• Narconon Drug Prevention Curriculum- Summary
• Narconon Drug Prevention Curriculum – Detailed Description
• A Case Study on the Narconon Program for Juveniles in Utah
• The Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program – A Descriptive Overview, by Dr. Alfonso Paredes
• Townsend Letter article on use of Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Program to Improve Health of NYC Rescue Workers
• Summary of Evaluations of the Narconon Program over the Last 25 Years
• Ending Drug Cravings – The Narconon Program’s Unique Detoxification Program
• A Physician’s Perspective
• A Drug Abuse Expert’s Perspective
• The Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program – On-going Program Evaluation

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