First, allow me to point out that psychiatry and psychology are two separate disciplines.

First, I don't buy into much of Psychology either, especially that of Sigmund Fraud, the father of psychoanalysis (not modern psychology, with all due respect to the mistaken). Frau - er, Freud's theories are questionable because he did not use the Scientific Method with the proper amount of vigilance; he also tended to exaggerate evidence that supported his theory and ignore evidence that didn't. That having been said--- The reason why Scientology does not like psychology, to the point of degrading it with false claims (when was the last time a lobotomy was performed? When has any PSYCHOLOGIST performed a lobotomy or administered electroshock treatment AT ALL?), is because of a very fundamental difference.

Scientology declares, basically, that they are the only ones who can help people. Psychology, on the other hand, declares that with a minimum of guidance, people can help themselves.

Scientology does not have faith in people. They do not believe that people can learn to control themselves (as evidenced when one of them tried to explain 'bullbait' to me) possibly, but I think the reason is more profound.

People who HELP themselves...who can control themselves, solve their own problems and think critically would begin to see fallacies in Scientological doctrine - as indeed most of us do. Scientology has a monopoly (don't pass GO, and WE collect the $200) on the truth, and cannot stand to have this authority questioned. People who think for themselves can not be controlled.

It has always been my sincerest belief that religion, values, and morals are supposed to GUIDE one's life, not run it or control it. Scientology (NOT exclusively either, so don't start) undeniably controls the lives of its adherents. Scientology decides what is good and proper, and what is not. So does any other religion. But when a Scientologist does something improper, Scientology takes ACTION.

L Ron Hubbard said that Scientology is true to a person only so much as that person is willing to believe. He specifically stated if a Scientologist believes that a particular tenet of Scientology is untrue - even if LRH himself says it IS true - then that tenet is, for that person, not true, plain and simple.

What happens when one begins to doubt a tenet of Scientology? Is she allowed to simply ignore it and move on, as LRH said? No, of course not. She is degraded and labeled a 'security threat.' What religion, in all the world, is so vulnerable to its disillusioned members that it calls such 'security threats'? Obviously, one who doesn't need it's delicate web of lies torn by a critical mind. I seriously do not understand why the people who make it to OT 3 or whatever, when told that the reactive brain etc were all lies, and THIS is the truth, don't sense that something is up. Everything they've been living by....merely illusion?

But Psychologists work different. You go to their office, and all they really do is ask you questions. Notice that Psychologists (good ones) never overtly suggest anything....they ask questions and let the person find the answers to his own problems. Psychologists do not CONTROL their patients; when a patient decides a psychologist is not working for him or her, he or she simply gets rid of them. In any case, the patients CERTAINLY aren't labeled 'security threats'.

It's all I got ta say about that.

-Joshua Korosi

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