A great deal of progress has been made in the 30 years since L.R. Hubbard's death.
A topic deserving of another thread; but I strongly disagree with your assertion. I also find it hard to believe that the church has no official position on psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.
Mr. Hubbard passed in 1986. What "great deal of progress" are you referring to?
Just ask a few psychiatrists if they have ever cured anything. This isn't hard to verify.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgKp6_QRNgk
(Of course since this is a video provided by CCHR, a group sponsored by Scientologists, I'm sure its content is will be questioned.)
The church has policies on psychiatry and psychiatric drugs of course. I don't know if it has any position on the percentage question you were asking. (see quote below.)
Ladewig - O.K. Then which of the following (if any) best describes your viewpoint of using medications to treat mental illness:
1) the majority of patients are helped
2) perhaps half the patients are helped
3) only a minority patients are helped
4) only a very small minority of patients are helped
5) so few patients are helped that twenty-first century psychiatry should not be a considered a branch of medicine.
Scientologists don't take psychiatric medications nor are they treated by psychiatrists.
I think the Code of a Scientologist and the Creed of Scientology may answer your question regarding the churches official position:
http://www.whatisscientology.org/html/Part14/Chp40/pg0735-c.html
Code of a Scientologist
1 To keep Scientologists, the public and the press accurately informed concerning Scientology, the world of mental health and society.
2 To use the best I know of Scientology to the best of my ability to help my family, friends, groups and the world.
3 To refuse to accept for processing and to refuse to accept money from any preclear or group I feel I cannot honestly help.
4 To decry and do all I can to abolish any and all abuses against life and mankind.
5 To expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging practices in the field of mental health.
6 To help clean up and keep clean the field of mental health.
7 To bring about an atmosphere of safety and security in the field of mental health by eradicating its abuses and brutality.
8 To support true humanitarian endeavors in the fields of human rights.
9 To embrace the policy of equal justice for all.
10 To work for freedom of speech in the world.
11 To actively decry the suppression of knowledge, wisdom, philosophy or data which would help mankind.
12 To support the freedom of religion.
13 To help Scientology orgs and groups ally themselves with public groups.
14 To teach Scientology at a level it can be understood and used by the recipients.
15 To stress the freedom to use Scientology as a philosophy in all its applications and variations in the humanities.
16 To insist upon standard and unvaried Scientology as an applied activity in ethics, processing and administration in Scientology organizations.
17 To take my share of responsibility for the impact of Scientology upon the world.
18 To increase the numbers and strength of Scientology over the world.
19 To set an example of the effectiveness and wisdom of Scientology.
20 To make this world a saner, better place.
http://www.scientology.org/world/worldeng/corp/creed.htm
Creed of Scientology
We of the Church believe:
That all men of whatever race, color, or creed were created with equal rights;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;
That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments;
That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others;
That all men have inalienable rights to the creation of their own kind;
That the souls of men have the rights of men;
That the study of the mind and the healing of mentally caused ills should not be alienated from religion or condoned in non-religious fields;
And that no agency less than God has the power to suspend or set aside these rights, overtly or covertly.
And we of the Church believe:
That man is basically good;
That he is seeking to survive;
That his survival depends upon himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe.
And we of the Church believe that the laws of God forbid man:
To destroy his own kind;
To destroy the sanity of another;
To destroy or enslave another's soul;
To destroy or reduce the survival of one's companions or one's group.
And we of the Church believe that the spirit can be saved and that the spirit alone may save or heal the body.
