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Psychiatry: An Industry of Death is a museum that opened in Hollywood, California in December 2005 by the Church of Scientology, by way of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. The event was attended by Scientologist celebrities such as Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Jenna Elfman, Danny Masterson, Giovanni Ribisi, Leah Remini, Catherine Bell and Anne Archer.
The museum has displays and exhibits making controversial allegations such as:
- Psychiatrists follow a long-standing "master plan" for world domination.
- Adolf Hitler had a central role in this plan.
- Psychiatry is to blame for the deaths of Ernest Hemingway, Del Shannon, Billie Holiday, Kurt Cobain, Spalding Gray, and many others.
- Seventeen million children worldwide are taking psychiatric drugs that cause suicide, hostility, violence and addiction.
- Psychiatrists kill up to 10,000 people a year with electroconvulsive therapy.
- Between 10 and 25 percent of psychiatrists sexually assault their patients, some of them children.
I told her I wasn't a scientist and had no interest in getting into a detailed argument about the benefits or dangers of mood-altering drugs; on the other hand, she wasn’t a scientist either, and the Church of Scientology had absolutely no standing to pronounce on medical issues. That clearly riled her, because by the time I got home there was an e-mail waiting in which she called our meeting "the most bizarre encounter I have had with a reporter in 10 years" and essentially berated me for refusing to engage in an argument she was clearly itching to have. ... The crudeness of the anti-psychiatric argument is tinged with a distinct patina of paranoia. It's not enough for Scientologists to express their near-pathological hatred of psychiatry in all its forms; they also have to feel they are being persecuted for their beliefs.
According to CCHR International President Jan Eastgate, speaking in the CCHR's press release for the museum, "There have been 18 psychiatric drug warnings issued in the last year alone, which link suicide, hostility, worsening depression, mania, hallucinations and death to psychiatric drugs that reap $80 billion dollars a year—an abuse CCHR has persistently exposed for three decades."
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"Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"