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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
Are his beliefs interfering with your psychotherapy or do you have a problem with him supporting an organization co-founded by L. Ron Hubbard? Did he recommend Narconon to you? If he isn't pushing his beliefs on you I don't see what the problem is.
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Heard of Lisa Macpherson? Just one example of what a problem like that could look like, but it's still a rather significant one. Pointing to why one might not want a member of that particular organization, based on the fanciful and psychologically questionable writings of a disordered individual, treating them for psychiatric conditions.
I'm not sure how it can be suggested that a person's belief system could be separated their psychiatric treatment methods, when that belief system includes intense anti-psychiatry tenets. The ways in which this could be a problem are numerous, and potentially catastrophic.
And Wikipedia hardly has a monopoly on awareness of the nature of this organization's activities. 
See also:
Operation Clambake
Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker
Cult Education Institute
These are hardly big money-making endeavors (certainly nothing remotely close to those that Scientology boasts) but simply labors of love, for those who got out, those who might still get out, and those who support them.
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Last edited by vonmoxie; Sep 26, 2014 at 06:38 PM.
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