Monday, June 27, 2005

Some times you feel like a nut

Slate Magazine's Explainer tackles Tom Cruise's hostility to psychiatry:
The extent of the feud might stem from the immediate backlash that [Scientology founder L. Ron] Hubbard received from mainstream mental health organizations. Dianetics was published in May 1950; by September, the American Psychological Association had advised therapists to avoid it. Not long after, the board of medical examiners in Hubbard's home state of New Jersey pursued legal action against him for practicing phony medicine.
Turns out L. Ron Hubbard wasn't always hostile to psychiatry. He may have sought help in 1947.