I suppose what you say is true. I'm not totally discounting psychiatric methods. But there is too much emphasis upon things like medication.
But in my last lifetime, I was very much f****d over by psychiatrists. What happened to me I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
In many cases, the goal is to turn the client into a total effect. If it were up to me, and my only two choices were leaving the system as it is, or totally eliminating it, I would eliminate it.
Helena
Hmm.. Psychiatry is not that old.. Never mind Hubbard want's to fib us that they've been around for 123 quadrillion years.. No, they're only a couple of hundred years old, as a profession. They 'emerged' in parallel with regular medicine and doctors..
Now, as for mistreating people, regular doctors did that too! - Before bacteria and hygiene was discovered they practically killed everybody they 'operated' on, and they operated on lots of people. Mothers died routinely from infections aquired in childbirth.. Ermm.. And this was before anaestics was invented too!
Then there's the 'intent' with medicine and Psychiatry.. It's to heal the sick and save lives! - That was the intent when they sawed a mans leg off with 'bourbon' as a painkiller, and he died 3 days later from infections.
Psychiatry intends to help the mentally sick.. They don't know much, but they know more than they did a hundred years ago.. And they know a damn sight more than Hubbard at any rate!
Next little 'gripe' I have about Hubbard's hatepropaganda about 'psychs', is that 'psychs' actually did NOT perpetrate the most evil stuff on people!
Religion did that! - Kings and warlords did that!
Religion was responsible for the infamous institution 'The Spanish Inquisition'.. People were tortured to death.. It was quite the usual thing in the dark ages anyway.. Various religions making up the organized torture, maiming and killing.. For not believing!
Kings and warlords tortured, maimed and killed for insufficient loyalty and a lot of other things.. Real or imagined.. Didn't take much to get yer head lopped off! - Sientologists will be familiar with the 'mindset' from study of the 'Bolivar PL'..
And I'm sure I don't have to remind you.. But the religions, kings and warlords down through history didn't set up their 'justice organizations' with any intent to 'help' their 'clients'..
So.. It seems to me that chances are that 'Religion' or a 'Warlord' fucked you over in a previous life.. Psychiatrists haven't been around that long..