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A couch Tom Cruise won't jump on // Actor lambastes psychiatry on 'Today'

Title: A couch Tom Cruise won't jump on // Actor lambastes psychiatry on 'Today'
Date: Saturday, 25 June 2005
Publisher: Washington Post
Author: Richard Leiby
Main source: washingtonpost.com

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Okay, should we address him as Dr. Tom Cruise from now on? Or will the Rev. Dr. Cruise suffice? Whatever: Anybody who watched the actor's performance on NBC's "Today" show yesterday witnessed an unsettling transformation. The movie star, who has long embraced Scientology, launched a full-bore assault on the psychiatric profession, sticking to a script that his church (founded, mind you, by a hack science fiction writer) has been promoting for decades. "Psychiatry is a pseudoscience," he told host Matt Lauer, ... [Read the rest at washingtonpost.com]