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Capitol Church Battle

January 18th, 2007 - 

A controversial church has come to Jefferson City to say that psychiatry is never the answer to human problems.

Scientologists and psychiatrists are at odds over a traveling exhibit that arrived Thursday. Jeff Griffin is a Scientologist who, along with the church’s Citizens Commission on Human Rights, want people to know psychiatry is what they call “an industry of death.” […]

The documentary accuses psychiatric medicine of endangering its patients by prescribing medication with dangerous side effects and using painful and inhumane treatments such as electroshock therapy.But members of the medical community find these accusations outrageous, and believe the exhibit is misleading.

“It’s a hit-and-run, I mean they’re flying into town, making claims that are not substantiated, having a good time being outrageous, thinking they’re doing the right thing and not answering any questions about what they’re saying,” said psychiatrist Dr. Bernard Beitman. […]

This is a summary extract from the full article as it appeared on KOMU, Jan 18, 2006

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