Category: state mental hospital

In an important and thorough post last week at The Atlantic, Ford Vox, a physician-journalist in Boston, wrote about Scientology's campaign against psychiatry, a useful reminder that Scientology continues to pursue its agenda, even if we're not always aware of it.

His post focuses on a series of four articles written by Andrea Ball in May and June at the Austin American-Statesman. They deal with a controversy over psychiatric research that appears to have been done improperly. The first article begins with a serious indictment:

The Department of State Health Services has prohibited the use of a controversial treatment at its public psychiatric hospitals after officials say they learned that a doctor performed unauthorized research on...