treatment of the insane, the methods of the shaman or Bedlam
have been far exceeded by the 'civilized' techniques of destroying
nerve tissue with the violence of shock and surgery, treatments
which were not warranted by the results obtained and which would
not have been tolerated in the meanest primitive society, since
they reduce the victim to mere zombyism, destroying most of his
personality and ambition and leaving him nothing more than a
manageable animal. Far from an indictment of the practices of
the 'neuro-surgeon' and the ice-pick which he thrusts and twists
into insane minds, they are brought forth only to demonstrate the
depths of desperation man can reach when contronted with the
seemingly unsolvable problem of deranged minds."1
(b) "Electric shock and other psychiatric efforts are equivocal.
Pre-frontal lobotomy is such certain and complete mind-murder
that one cannot be certain thereafter of anything in the patient
except zombiism."2
(c) "The use of electrical shocks upon a body for any purpose is there-
fore very dangerous and is not condoned by sensible men. Of course.
the use of electrical shock was never intended to be therapeutic,
but was intended only to bring about obedience by duress, and, as
far as it can be discovered, to make the entirety of insanity
a horror. Electrical shock deranges the electronic field in
the vicinity of the body and is always succeeded by back health
or physical difficulties and never does otherwise than hasten
the death of the person."3
14.5. Examples of attacks on psychiatry in Scientology publications and pamphlets are the
following:
(a) In a cartoon (a form of attack often used by Scientology) Doc
Schoquhem, Psychiatrist, is depicted announcing at a press
conference: "Gentlemen, we've reduced the post-operative death
rate to 78.4%."4
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1Hubbard L. Ron: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The Garden City Pres
Limited, Letchworth, Hertfortshire, Great Britain. (May 1968), p. 4.
2Hubbard L. Ron: Scientology. Dianetics. The Evolution of a Science. F.E. Bording Ltd.,
Copenhagen, Denmark. (May 1950), p. 55.
3Hubbard L. Ron: Scientology. The Fundamentals of Thought. Foundry Press, Ltd., Bedford,
England. (Copyright 1956), p. 37.
4Hare, Fred: Editor: The Auditor No. 4. The Saint Hill Journal of the Auditors Division,
October 1964. H.C.O. (W.W.) Ltd., East Grinstead, Sussex, England, p. 2.
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