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Nov 30, 2005
Scientology's War Against Psychiatry — CNN
Type: Press
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Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN Tom Cruise has a new bone to pick with psychiatrists. He's boasting that he has helped think nearly half-a-million kids off of meds. Tonight, we reveal what Scientologists don't like about psychiatry. You're going to hear from a church member. Also tonight, are we on the brink of a mini ice age? Some experts say things could be getting much colder in some parts of the world. We will tell you what makes them so concerned. From America and around the ...
Oct 28, 2005
Reliable evidence and due process — NZ Lawyer
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Lynley Hood Source:
NZ Lawyer Lynley Hood finds deep flaws in the Lake Alice settlement. News that the police have found no evidence of criminal offending by psychiatrist Dr Selwyn Leeks, former head of the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice Hospital, has been greeted with dismay by the psychiatric patient advocacy group, Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). "We're not giving up now. We are still working with victims and are still going to be filing criminal complaints," the group's New Zealand executive director, ...
Sep 22, 2005
Inquiry finds no evidence of offending by 1970s psychiatrist — The Dominion Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kelly Andrew Source:
The Dominion Post A former Lake Alice patient is disgusted police have decided not to charge a psychiatrist accused of abusing young people there in the 1970s.
Police say they have found no evidence of criminal offending after investigating more than 20 complaints from former patients of Selwyn Leeks, who headed the child and adolescent unit of the now-closed hospital near Wanganui.
A man who was a patient at Lake Alice in the mid-1970s told The Dominion Post the police decision not to press ...
Sep 8, 2005
Rev. Mary Lou Reile, Scientology leader — Buffalo News
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Buffalo News The Rev. Mary Lou Reile of Elma, director of special affairs for the Church of Scientology in Buffalo for 20 years, died Monday in Mercy Hospital after a short illness. She was 72.
Born in Buffalo, the former Mary Lou Urso graduated from Kensington High School, what was then Rosary Hill College and Hubbard College, where she achieved Executive Status One. The mother of seven, she was crowned Mrs. Buffalo in 1957.
As a minister in the Church of Scientology, she ...
Sep 1, 2005
Celebrity triggers tumult over psychiatric care: Did the news media make things worse? — Psychiatric Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Michael Jonathan Grinfeld Source:
Psychiatric Times Take years of research, clinical observations, technological advancements and scientific discovery, and then subject them to derision and skepticism during a celebrity rant that's part of a promotional tour for an upcoming movie, and suddenly it's a media event. Sounds odd, but it describes what happened after Tom Cruise decided to take on psychiatry while hawking his new movie, War of the Worlds , and the news media decided to turn the story into the latest shouting match for talking heads. While ...
Sep 1, 2005
Tom Cruise, Scientology bash psychiatry; APA fires back — Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Type: Press
Author(s):
Amanda Chesworth Source:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry “It is irresponsible for Mr. Cruise to use his movie publicity tour to promote his own ideological views and deter people with mental illness from getting the care they need.” —– So states Dr. Steven Sharfstein, president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), in response to recent talk show activities of actor Tom Cruise. Weeks earlier, Cruise had criticized actress Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants for postpartum depression. Cruise believes all psychiatry to be pseudoscience, chemical imbalances to be imaginary, and ...
Jul 1, 2005
Scientology's war on psychiatry — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Katharine Mieszkowski Source:
Salon The controversial church, whose founder called shrinks "terrorists" and which labels mental illness a fraud, is closer than you think to implanting its extreme beliefs in the nation's laws and schools. It may be easy to dismiss Tom Cruise's recent outbursts against psychiatry as the ravings of an egomaniacal celebrity. Comedians have certainly had a field day with Cruise, a fervent disciple of the Church of Scientology, ever since he scolded Brooke Shields for taking prescribed medication to treat her postpartum ...
Jul 1, 2005
War of Words — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brooke Shields Source:
New York Times I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. ...
Jun 29, 2005
Inside Scientology — CNNMore: Daily Motion
Type: Press
Author(s):
Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN COOPER: Well today Tom Cruise's new film "War of the Worlds" hits theaters. And for the actor, a lot is riding on the success of this film. In recent days, Cruise has stunned audiences by lecturing "Today Show" Host Matt Lauer, as well as Actress Brooke Shields, on what he believes are the evils of psychiatry and antidepressant medication.
Now this week the reaction from the medical community has been swift and strong. In the next half hour, we're focusing not ...
Jun 24, 2005
Scientologists vs. psychiatrists // Why they don't get along — Slate Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Daniel Engber Source:
Slate Magazine In an interview shown on NBC's Today on June 24, celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise railed against modern treatments for mental health problems. "I've never agreed with psychiatry, ever," he said. Do all Scientologists have a problem with psychiatry? Yes. Scientology has its roots in a maverick form of psychological counseling that rejects the principles of modern psychiatry. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health . (He founded the Church of Scientology a few years later.) The ...
Apr 12, 2005
Editorial // Scientology in schools — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Bills in the state Legislature that aim to keep students from receiving psychiatric treatment bear the familiar marks of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer before he decided, more than a half-century ago, to publish his views on mental health. Now, apparently, his adherents are writing Florida law. Two bills aimed at schoolchildren that are winding their way through the Legislature bear a familiar Hubbard trademark. They hold the practice of modern mental health medicine in contempt and, ...
Apr 9, 2005
Scientologists push mental health law — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alisa Ulferts Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Opponents say the legislation takes advantage of lingering stigma and will deter parents from seeking help for their children. TALLAHASSEE - Legislation backed by an offshoot of the Church of Scientology aims to discourage public school students from seeking mental health services. The measure would require schools to tell parents that any mental health treatment would be part of a student's permanent record, which is true only in limited cases now. It also would require school officials to tell parents that ...
Feb 6, 2005
Persistent sleuthing uncovers state flaw — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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