old article (1951) on LRHubbard

[katty]

(scan of original article at link)

cont'd: http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/sfchronicle-hubbard-042451.htm

Ron Hubbard Insane, Says His Wife

April 24, 1951

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LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UP)---

The wife of L.Ron Hubbard, 40, founder of the Dianetics Mental Health Movement, filed suit for divorce today, charging he is suffering from a mental ailment. Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, said "competent medical advisers" had examined her 40-year-old husband and concluded he was "hopelessly insane" and should be placed in a private sanitarium for "psychiatric observation." She said doctors told her her husband was suffering from a mental ailment "known as paranoid schizophrenia."

Mrs. Hubbard also charged he subjected her to "systematic torture" by beating and strangling her and denying her sleep. Her suit said Hubbard once told her he didn`t want to be married and suggested that if she really loved him, she would kill herself because a divorce would "hurt his reputation."

Mrs. Hubbard described her husband`s dianetics research foundation as his "alter ego" and said the institution did more than $1,000,000 business last year.

When informed of the doctors` recommendation that he be placed in a mental institution, Hubbard took their 13-month-old daughter, Alexis, from Mrs. Hubbard`s apartment and went into hiding, the suit charged.

[shain from kane]

1. Sounds just like him. n/t

[porphyrian]

2. Psychiatrists are alien control agents!

A Scientology Information Correction team has been dispatched to your location. Please remain there for further instruction.

[MrModerate]

3. Aha! -- so Tom Cruise's disdain for psychiatry . . .

Has roots in his prophet's history?

Very interesting. Very revealing.

[katty]

4. found an interv w/Hub's son at this link-from 1980's

http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/newsherald-DeWolfe07-82.htm

[Canuckistanian]

5. The whole organization and all it's literature

denounce psychiatry. Tom Cruise is just a part of that choir.

Scientology is supposed to be a more perfect explanation of how the mind works.

There are, however, no Scientology mental hospitals.

[MrModerate]

8. Just to be snarky . . .

How would you tell if a Scientologist facility was or wasn't a mental hospital?

[katty]

10. great question! Matt Lauer should ask that next time...

[Canuckistanian]

14. Good point

But most Scientologist facilities have a distinct lack of qualified people. That's how you tell the difference!

[warrens]

6. See why Tom Cruise knows so much about psychiatrists?

Those people are such looney-toons.

[katty]

7. yeah, no kidding..really whacked out

[Dr Fate]

9. I'm more of an Asimov man myself. n/t

n/t

[shain from kane]

11. I'm an A. E. Van Vogt superman.

Joking. He was an L. Ron Hubbard disciple for awhile.

[Lexingtonian]

12. yep

Someday a forensic psychiatrist will have a lot of fun analyzing Scientology's teachings as a primitive therapy for dealing with schizophrenia. And the general conceit of Scientology, i.e. Hubbard's, is that of paranoid and delusional schizophrenics- it's the World that is insane, not themselves. The World must be cured ("cleared" of "Thetans"), not themselves. The organization is the purest American manifestation of lunatics running the asylum (well, short of the Republican Party). Operation Snow White is a thing well worth knowing about.

Of course, the really sad part is that some Hubbard "teachings" are so psychiatrically straining on people that most or all adherents undergo psychotic breaks when "auditing" certain ones. "OT 5" was notorious for this. There's the sad story of Lisa MacPherson that illustrates it so well.

[spag68]

13. L.Ron Hubbard was a joke

I was reading science fiction in the fifty's and candidly his books were not that good.Think maybe about the quality of capt. Kirk, who was a great hero, but whose books were kind of boring.