Editing Scientology (section)

=== Psychiatry, psychology, psychosis ===
{{Main|Scientology beliefs and practices#Rejection of psychology and psychiatry}}

Scientology is vehemently opposed to psychiatry and psychology, and wants to replace them with its own methods.{{Sfn|Kent|1999a|p=6}} The clinical and academic psychiatry community rejected Hubbard's theories in the early 1950s.{{sfn|Miller|1987|p=184}} Hubbard and his early Dianetics organization were prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license in the early 1950s.{{sfnm|1a1=Urban|1y=2011|1pp=62–68|2a1=Westbrook|2y=2019|2pp=81–83|3a1=Kent|3y=1996}}

Hubbard taught that psychiatrists were responsible for a great many wrongs in the world, saying that psychiatry has at various times offered itself as a tool of political suppression and that psychiatry was responsible for the ideology of Hitler, for turning the Nazis into mass murderers, and the Holocaust.<ref name="GA184" /> The Scientology organization operates the anti-psychiatry group [[Citizens Commission on Human Rights]] (CCHR), which operates [[Psychiatry: An Industry of Death]], an anti-psychiatry museum.<ref name="GA184">{{harvnb|Cowan|Bromley|2006|p=184}}</ref> Though Hubbard had stated psychosis was not something Scientology dealt with, after noticing many Scientologists were suffering breakdowns after using his techniques he created the [[Introspection Rundown]], a brutal and inhumane method to allegedly solve psychotic episodes.{{r|reitman|pages=208-9}} The rundown came under public scrutiny when in 1995 Scientologist [[death of Lisa McPherson|Lisa McPherson]] suffered a mental breakdown and was removed from the hospital and held in isolation at a Church of Scientology for 17 days before she died.{{r|truthrundown|page=Part 2}}