(May 8, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Alex K Wrote: Scientology is mainly against psychiatry because Hubbard was pissed that the psychiatrists weren't impressed by his ideas in Dianetics.
Though by chance, Hubbard nonetheless had company in his skeptical attitude toward psychiatry. From the 1950s onward, Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist, thought mental illness was largely a myth. Perhaps that's extreme, but the profession certainly has a tendency to label anything undesirable or outside of social norms as a disorder. Thus we have "gender identity disorder" defined in the DSM V now that homosexuality was dropped in 1973. It's probably insurance-driven, the underwriters won't pay for sex-change surgeries without a DSM diagnosis. So maybe adding religious belief to the list isn't so absurd; then insurance will cover the services of the deprogrammers.
