Psychiatry: An Industry of Death (GAM404)

Heath Enwright

Eli Bosnick

***Psychiatry: An Industry of Death*** is a "documentary" produced by the "Citizens Commission on Human Rights", which is not what it sounds like—it's actually a front group, fully funded by the Church of Scientology to push an anti-psychiatry agenda.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another terrible movie so you don't have to.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you love passive-aggressive fights about a remark you made three Thanksgivings ago, but you wish it was about the validity of medical science instead, and brought to you by the world's second dumbest region, you will *love* this movie. [Mormonism is the top.]

### **Best Worst**

* Cara: …complete and total fucking of my YouTube algorithm. [A serious risk of guest masochism.]
* Heath: …just do your movie and tell us about your religion magic. [Just hours of edging Scientology with no volcano demons or robot handjobs at all.]
* Eli: …"and they're makin' healthcare expensive!" [In a movie claiming it's child abuse.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Cara's new book (co-edited with Dr. Stephen Hupp) *Pseudoscience in Therapy: A Skeptical Field Guide*, available via Eli's helpful link, CaraDid911.com. Also check out her website, Twitter, *Talk Nerdy*, *The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe*, *Fixed That for You*, and (again thanks to Eli) iLoveSkinBooks.com.
* This propaganda comes from the "Citizens Commission on Human Rights" (CCHR), a Scientology front founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Szasz said in 2009 that "I no more believe in their religion or their beliefs than I believe in the beliefs of any other religion. I am an atheist, I don't believe in Christianity, in Judaism, in Islam, in Buddhism and I don't believe in Scientology. I have nothing to do with Scientology." As mentioned at the end of the episode, there is a Psychiatry: An Industry of Death "Museum."

### **Jokes**

* [Cara: I actually wrote my notes, "Pretty much every German industry was bent to the will of the Nazi party. Might as well say that the dark agenda of the *cobbler* is to make it so Nazis don't get ouchies on their feetsies on their way to mass murder."] [Eli: "Eleven percent of the cobblers joined the SS."] [Cara: What?] [Eli: "*Proof* that shoes are big Nazi". They also, and I—you gotta love the irony of this—they, like, "They use their training in Psychiatry to make propaganda films." And I wrote my notes, "Oh really, *Psychiatry: An Industry of Death*, are we coming out against propaganda films now?]

### **Interstitials**

* Long Angry Preamble (4:23) [Outside the Usual Format]
* First Meeting of Sciento… the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (10:31)
* Maytreon, featuring Cara (49:08)
* Eli Doesn't Believe in Dentistry (1:23:03)
* iPhone Supremacist Bigots/"Blurbs" at the Top of Studies (2:01:25) [Post Credits]

### **Tropes**

* Scientologists Don't Know How the World Works
* Reprehensible Moral Message
* Take Your Damn Medicine

### **Animal House Close**

* Cara: Scientology continued to build empty churches all over the world so that their membership of twenty-five thousand (not three and half million as they claim) have a place to go when their pesky hallucinations and delusions and intrusive thoughts pop up, because they're definite not symptoms of mental illness, just like, you know, "itchy soul."
* Heath: Also, if you get offered an E-Meter reading by a Scientologist, like on a subway for example, grab those two metal dicks, and start making noises like a demon. It's a real fun time.
* Eli: Cara's co-editor had a lot of *really* pointed questions about their recent increase in *Amazon* reviews. CaraDid911.com

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Episode on Patreon
* Film on YouTube
* IMDb

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