"Also, I think Charles Schulz was always highly skeptical of psychology as a frivolous nonsense science"
Don't confuse psychiatry and psychology.
Psychology is indeed a very scientific, valid and helpful approach to study the human psyche, even though it has strayed from the factual realm and has intertwined with the pseudoscience called 'psychiatry' a lot these days.
Neurology is another very necessary and admirable field, but as nothing on this planet is what it's supposed to be, I am sure that area also suffers from some faults.
But psychiatry - what is that? It's not needed. If there's a physical fault in the brain, neurology is the answer.
If there's problem with the psyche, then psychology should be helpful.
What the hell does psychiatry help with? Pharma corporations, of course. That's it's task. Psychiatry is not a science, it has never cured anyone, and the 'help' it offers, is highly questionable, with the faulting of the patients (constantly telling them how sick, disturbed and mentally imbalanced they are, instead of encouraging them and telling them they are exactly as they are supposed to be), and indoctrinating and pressuring them to conform to the dogma of 'normalcy' (defined by them of course), while pumping them full of dangerous neurotoxins, which are known to cause tardive dyskinesia (permanent shaking of the hands, for example, which can lead to paralysis and death).
Psychiatry is not needed, but psychology and neurology are. The way psychology is used to aid the control that psychiatry wants is shameful, but in it's pure form, psychology can be good and bring us knowledge about the inner workings of the human psyche.
Having said all that, I think the way psychiatry is shown in the movie is brilliant - it's truthful, it's pretty accurate, and it's very true to life. That's pretty much what psychiatrists do - they try to convince you have all these 'faults', they convince you are not 'normal', they try to destroy any self esteem and self-respect you might have left, and then they slap you with a bill and tell you your only hope is a long-term therapy. The only thing missing from Lucy's "treatment" was to dump a bunch of pills on Charlie Brown, and then tell him if they don't work or cause strange things like drooling, hallucinations, insomnia, dhiarrea or disorientation, she has a couple of other brands she could test him with.
Psychiatry is quackery, but people have been taught it's science and that it is "THE ANSWER", if anything is wrong with their lives, especially with the emotional or mental "balance", as they call it, and it's the control method where all the 'difficult' people are forcefully guided into. When the system thinks your thoughts are not 'healthy', into psychiatry you go, to be 'treated'. So you will then be treated all your life, pretty much the same way Lucy does in the movie, without any hope of 'recovery'.
Sometimes, patients do 'recover', despite psychiatry's efforts to keep them buying pills, accusations and guilt from them. Psychiatry doesn't like this much, but on the other hand, can use these people as a feather in their cap to show that it "works". The thing is, people who recover, do so despite psychiatry, not because of it. It's always a financial disaster when a patient stops using the drugs and stops receiving the psychiatric tortu.. services.
It's big business, with pills that have "death" listed as one side effect.
This movie actually deals with psychiatry with a very light touch - the reality is just so much more harsh.
As far as people turning to scientology - you are talking as if there are only two options. Scientology is not an answer, but I bet it's probably a lot less dangerous and more healthy than psychiatry.
Anyone who knows the history of psychiatry can never see psychiatry in any kind of positive light. It has helped exactly no one.
If you are hearing voices or seeing hallucinations, there might be other explanations than "brain chemical imbalance" (which is, ironically, measured only AFTER you have been pumped full of psychiatric, chemical drugs!).
Life is eternal, and energy never disappears, it only changes form, and we are all energy. That means that life continues after death, like we have always been taught. People living in the astral world, contacting people who live in the physical world, thus, shouldn't be such an impossibility.
I suggest anyone suffering from what they think might be 'mental illness' (which might actually just be wrong thinking combined with sensitivity for extra-sensory perception or energy flows not working properly), first go to a Chinese doctor - acupuncturist -, then find some other alternatives, like herbal medicine, meditation, prayer, etc.
Only if none of this helps, would I ever suggest going to a good psychologist (but not psychiatrist!). Good being that they are not bought by corporations and do not associate themselves to psychiatry in any way.
Don't confuse psychiatry with psychology. Psychiatry has no reason to exist, psychology is a necessary study of the psyche, that has produced very interesting results that can help the whole humanity in the long run.
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