WHY Did L Ron Hubbard Suddenly REJECT PSYCHIATRY?

In 1950 L Ron Hubbard, an author of short Science Fiction stories published a controversial book entitled, “Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health”.

The ideas he presented in this book were unscientific, untested, unproven, irrational and often bizarre, yet Hubbard claimed that by reading this book everyone on the planet would be able to clear their minds of all their psychological problems such as fear, anxiety and depression.

Hubbard published the book intending it to be an adjunct to psychiatry. At this point, Hubbard respected Psychiatry and had sought psychiatric help himself several times earlier on in his life and had actually used psychotropic drugs on several occasions.

However, not unsurprisingly, Dianetics was rejected completely by the Psychiatric and Medical community and Hubbard took this rejection deeply personally and became intensely bitter and paranoid towards Psychiatry (and several other branches of the Medicine).
So, in 1969, he set up the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) to expose what he considered to be the evils of psychiatry.

The ideas expressed by the CCHR are so extreme, bizarre, irrational, illogical and ridiculous that it is impossible to take them (or Dianetics) seriously or reasonable in any way. In fact they are completely and utterly absurd, mindless, senseless and absolute nonsense.

For example, Hubbard (and the Church of Scientology) blames Psychiatry on the rise of Hitler and Stalin, on World War 2, on the Holocaust, on the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre on 9/11, on the Virginia Tech shootings, on the war in Kosova and numerous other international tragedies.

This video explains why Hubbard abandoned and forbid Psychiatry.