CCHR's response to comments by the President of the American Psychiatric Association

The President of the American Psychiatric Association obviously needs a bit of a lesson on the difference between a disease and a mental "disorder."

The President of the A.P.A., Nada Stotland, MD, was recently asked about Citizens Commission on Human Rights' far-reaching and persistent campaign against Psychiatry and harmful psychiatric practices, so CCHR made a response to her response, and here it is:

CCHR Says Top APA Psychiatrist Needs Lesson in Disease vs. Disorder

These videos may also help to explain why Dr Stotland holds such views:

The Difference Between Medical Disease & Psychiatric Disorder

Psychiatric Conflicts of Interest with Big Pharma



More videos from CCHR, the Mental Health Watchdog, here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CCHRInt&view=videos

Gala Classical Concert to Open 18th Saint Hill International Arts Festival

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An evening of world-class piano, violin, song, drama and dance on Sunday 2nd Aug 2009 will officially open this year’s week-long Saint Hill International Arts Festival at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead.

East Grinstead, West Sussex - For the last 17 years, Saint Hill Manor (former residence of humanitarian and philosopher, L. Ron Hubbard) has been the home to the Saint Hill International Arts Festival.

Traditionally, the festival opens with a Gala Classical Concert featuring a range of extremely talented professional performers such as concert pianist, Gabriel Arnold, and Hollywood actress and singer Judy Norton (best known for her role as Mary Ellen in the Waltons).

Gabriel Arnold

This year’s concert will also feature Marion Shuster – Soprano, Martin & Anne-Marie Sonneveld - Violin/Viola, Mike Perroud – Violin, Georgina Roberts & Robbie Scandrett - Comedy Drama and Barbara Lanik – Classical Dance.

For the first time this year, the evening will close with a Grand Firework Display - a professionally staged fireworks extravaganza.

Marion Shuster and Judy Norton

The concert marks the start of the week-long festival and will comprise all manner of arts such as painting, drama, singing, dancing, film-making, photography, fashion design and sculpture.

“The Saint Hill International Arts Festival provides artists and potential artists with the ideal environment in which to blossom, where art is taught by people with the correct technology, without invalidation, and where one is free to perform and be appreciated,” says Sheila Gaiman, Festival Executive Producer. “The festival is designed to inspire artists into greater productivity, for, as L. Ron Hubbard said:

‘A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.’”

Barbara Lanik

The week will include hands-on workshops in a wide range of different art forms which attendees are taught and then get a chance to practice. Performances are prepared and given every evening to a very appreciative audience. Last year, there were workshops on writing as well as on film acting, given by the two-time EMMY nominated actress, Lee Purcell (star of films such as Big Wednesday, Stir Crazy, and Valley Girl). This year’s line up is just as exciting. There are singing, dancing, acting, sculpture workshops as well as a master class in piano. There are even workshops on kimono, jewellery-making and photography.

In addition, throughout the week, Saint Hill Castle, within the grounds of Saint Hill Manor, becomes a large art gallery, with art pieces being displayed in every corridor, and even outdoor pieces displayed in the gardens.

About the Saint Hill International Arts Festival 2009

Date: 02 Aug 09 - 08 Aug 09
Time: 10:30 am - 10:00 pm
Location: Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 4JY
Phone: +44 (0)1342 312824
E-mail: shiaf.m@hotmail.co.uk
Website: http://www.arts-festival.org
Opening Gala Classical Concert: Tickets £10
(includes Reception in the Castle Courtyard at 6.00pm, 02 Aug 09)

For more information, please contact:

Liz Ostermann
Saint Hill International Arts Festival
Saint Hill Manor
East Grinstead
West Sussex
RH19 4JY

+44 (0)1342 312824
info@hubbardfoundation.co.uk
http://www.arts-festival.org
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3 New Breathtaking Scientology Ads in HD

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These new ads are simply outstanding. They inspire me, they encourage me and they make me feel good. If I wasn't a Scientologist already, they would really make me want to find out what Scientology's all about.

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If these videos have inspired you to find out more about Scientology, here are some links:

• Meet a Scientologist (150 real people to choose from):
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Mandate Human Rights Education in Schools

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Youth for Human Rights International, UK branch, gathers signatures on a petition for the mandating of human rights education in schools across London

What Are Human Rights? Find out at youthforhumanrights.org

London: The UK arm of Youth for Human Rights International gathered signatures in London recently for a petition to mandate human rights education in schools in London.

The number of London Boroughs reporting human rights abuses in 2008 was 26 out of 32. The main plague in our capital city today is child and woman trafficking. This is a situation that we seem to think happens elsewhere. But if we take a closer look in is on our own doorstep.

This is the reason a team of human rights advocates set out to gather signatures on a petition for the mandating of human rights education in schools across London. They set up in Westminster where hundreds of passers-by stopped to find out more.

Signatures being gathered in Westminster by UK branch of Youth for Human Rights International

With education about these issues and how they relate to us, one will minimally know that they have rights. Then once they know what they are an individual will be able to use these within their groups so we start to see a difference in our schools, communities, cities and country.

Youth For Human Rights International, UK branch, has been conducting this campaign for the last few years, gathering support for what they see as the start point to actually making human rights a reality.

Volunteer and Muslim, Abdi, stated “It is vital we do this, making people aware of what their rights are and showing them where they can find out more is really good. The more signatures we have, we will use this pressure to make it mandatory that every human being knows what human rights are across London.”

To find out more about human rights, visit www.youthforhumanrights.org

For more information, please contact:

Mark Pinchin
146 Queen Victoria Street
London
EC4V 4BY

0207 246 2717
0779 649 8520
mpinchin@scientology.org.uk

Narconon Hastings Motorbike Challenge

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In October 2009 Mark Caplan and twenty of his friends will be doing a 1300km motorbike ride through India, starting in Amritsar and finishing in New Delhi. They will be riding their Royal Enfield Bullets on the ride of their lives.

Mark is raising money for the drug rehab, Narconon Hastings, and he hopes you will support this charity's crusade against drug addiction by visiting his Justgiving fundraising page.

Using L. Ron Hubbard's drug rehab technology, Narconon has been saving lives for over 40 years in the fight against addiction, with more than 200,000 graduates now drug free. Help them help the community!

Donating through Justgiving is quick, easy and totally secure. If you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation. So please sponsor Mark by visiting: http://www.justgiving.com/india-motorcycle-challenge Narconon is a registered charity (no. 1098004), so your donations are tax deductable.

Please help raise money for Narconon

Narconon London Charity No. 1098004 – Company Registration No. 04305687
© 2009 Narconon is a trademark & service mark owned by the Association for Better Living and Education and used with its permission.

L. Ron Hubbard's Guinness World Record - Most audio books for one author

This is L. Ron Hubbbard's third Guinness World Record!

A collection of audiobooks from L. Ron Hubbard's pulp fiction stories

London, UK—With 185 audio books, L. Ron Hubbard has just garnered his 3rd world record as confirmed by Guinness World Records, it was announced last month at the London International Book Fair. The official statement reads, “Most audio books for one author is L. Ron Hubbard with 185 published audio books as of 21st April 2009.”

“Past Guinness world records issued include ‘Most translated author,’ and the world's ‘Most published author,’” stated Gunhild Jacobs, Executive Director for Trade Operations Author Services, Inc., the literary agency that handles the combined works of Hubbard, from her offices in Hollywood upon receiving the news. She also pointed out that the New York Times bestselling novelised version of Hubbard’s screen play Ai Pedrito! written by Kevin J. Anderson, held the record from Guinness as the largest book signing in history, until the New York Times bestselling version of Hubbard’s A Very Strange Trip, novelised by Dave Wolverton, beat this record a year later.

“We have had excellent success with our new line of audiobooks,” Jacobs continued. “With the attention to detail that we put into their production, our audiobooks have already been recognised by Publishers Weekly, AudioFile Magazine, School Library Journal and Booklist for their superb quality. Plus, two of our audiobooks are up for Audie Awards. We feel that we are contributing to a reading renaissance with these stories.”

In a recent published review of the just-released Orders is Orders audiobook, Publishers Weekly stated, “Demonstrating his unique ability to relate even the most complicated story with a keen eye for detail and realism, Hubbard’s stunning writing ability and creative imagination set him apart as one of the greatest literary figures of the 20th century.”

To help listeners understand how these audiobooks were created and listening quality achieved, a special video presentation entitled, The Making of a Golden Age Audiobook, has been created and can be seen at: http://www.goldenagestories.com/html/podcasts.php#6.

For more information about the Golden Age line of audiobooks, visit http://www.goldenagestories.com.

If you have kids, you NEED to watch this video

It is vital that you understand the full implications and dangers of this proposed mental screening

Our kids' health is at risk. Depression screening may lead to drug treatment for millions of kids across the United States, with drugs that are known to cause suicide and violence.

Find out more:

• http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html
• http://www.teenscreentruth.com
• http://www.cchr.org

Scientology UK on Google Street View

Google Street View comes to the UK, and here are all the Scientology establishments, so far, in the system:

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Church of Scientology London

146 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4BY

0207 246 2700

http://www.scientology-london.org

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Dianetics & Scientology Life Improvement Centre

68 Tottenham Court Rd, London, W1T 2BB
0207 636 9874
http://www.dianeticslondon.co.uk


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Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre London
42 Leinster Gardens, London, W2 3AN
0207 262 2000
http://www.scientology-cclondon.org

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L. Ron Hubbard's Fitzroy House
37 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 6DX
0207 255 2422
http://www.fitzroyhouse.org

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Church of Scientology Manchester
258 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4BG
0161 834 6463
http://www.scientology.org.uk

For the complete list of Scientology organisations in the UK, click here.

Much Loved Humanitarian, Scientologist and Businessman, David Gaiman Passed Away Saturday 7th March 2009

David Gaiman, a prominent member of the East Grinstead community and resident since the early 1960s, died suddenly, but peacefully

East Grinstead, West Sussex: A standing-room-only memorial service was held on 11 March at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, with family, friends and colleagues flying in from all over the world to pay their respects to one of the most noted humanitarians in our community. Attending were over 80 staff from Mr Gaiman’s vitamin manufacturing company, G&G Food Supplies, as well as staff and pupils from Greenfields School where Mr Gaiman had been a trustee since its formation in the 1980’s. 

David, at the end of his basic army training in 1952, in the Middlesex Regiment at Mill Hill

On 12 March, a Jewish funeral service was held in Brighton with friends from the USA and Scotland joining family and friends in paying their respects. Hundreds of messages of condolence came in from all over the world, including East Grinstead local councillors, lauding Mr Gaiman for his achievements and contribution to friend and colleague alike for the real help he gave many people who knew him – almost one for one. 

Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Mr Gaiman and his wife, Sheila, traveled to assist children most affected, and in alliance with the Russian Academy for Medical Sciences, started delivering the Hubbard Detoxification Program to alleviate the effects of radiation on the victims.

In the years that followed, Mr Gaiman worked tirelessly to establish the program to rid sufferers from the effects of toxins, pollution and nuclear radiation in the UK, Russia, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. Following the 9/11 disaster in New York, volunteers used the groundwork established by Mr Gaiman to make the Hubbard Detoxification Program available to firemen and emergency workers harmed by the toxic effects of the explosions. 

David and Sheila Gaiman, founders of G&G Food Supplies Ltd, at the company's 40th anniversary celebrations in 2005

 

In 1959, Mr Gaiman married the love of his life, Sheila, and on March 1st, six days before his death, celebrated 50 years of happy marriage. Mr and Mrs Gaiman were companions and business associates and traveled the world together working on humanitarian projects. They raised three beautiful and accomplished children: noted author Neil Gaiman, and executives Claire Edwards, Officer, Scientology Missions International and Lizzy Calcioli, Executive Director, Wealden House Life Improvement Centre and he will be missed by his children, children-in-law, grandchildren, sisters and many other family members and friends. 

 

David and Sheila in 1999 during their 40th wedding anniversary party with their children and grandchildren

David will be most remembered for his incredible sense of humour and the feeling of wellbeing he gave to everyone with whom he came in contact. 

“Scientology has given me a set of tools to work with… It has given me a real sense of the kind of person I want to be and my place in the community”

David Bernard Gaiman, 10 June 1933 – 7 March 2009

Methadone is NOT the solution

Addicts not only addicted to heroin but also to methadone, the ‘answer’ to their addiction.

by Alison Withey

Recently there has been much media attention on the ‘collapse’ of drug rehabilitation services in the UK. The National Treatment Agency has spent millions since 2001, getting thousands of drug users in contact with drug addiction services. Last year only 3% of these cases were actually referred to residential rehab, while two-thirds were prescribed heroin substitute medication by GPs and NHS doctors working in addiction services.

Professor Neil McKeganey, Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse in Glasgow, speaks out in ‘The Independent’ newspaper about the irresponsibility of keeping addicts locked into addiction by the use of methadone. You can read what he has to say in the article dated February 1st 2009.

Over the years I have personally known many addicts who have been on long term methadone maintenance scripts. These addicts were not only addicted to heroin but also to methadone, the ‘answer’ to their addiction.

To illustrate this, here is a personal testimony from one of our students:

Richie after completing the Narconon Drug Free Withdrawal

“ I have been on meth for about 10 years. I’ve tried different programmes where you get drugs to come off drugs and it never worked. I came here and I came off the meth with just vitamins. I did really want to stop taking drugs and I put my mind to it. Twelve days and I was fine. The programme works. Finally I can look forward to a drug-free life with my kids and family.” Richie

We at Narconon know that residential rehabilitation is by far the best chance an addict has of beating his addiction and creating a new life. Many of us are living testimonies of this fact and we see, on a daily basis, the results of our residential rehabilitation program.

If you have any friend in need of help for drug addiction, here at Narconon Hastings we can offer that help. Our natural, drug–free, educational program has proven to be the most successful rehab program in the world.

Here is a quote from the author of our methodology; the philosopher and humanitarian L.Ron Hubbard:

“The addict has been found not to want to be an addict, but is driven by pain and environmental hopelessness.

As soon as an addict can feel healthier and more competent mentally and physically without drugs than he does on drugs, he ceases to require drugs.”

L. Ron Hubbard

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The NARCONON Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation programme is entirely drug-free.

Narconon Helpline: 0800 169 4803
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Narconon UK
Caple Ne Ferne
2 Albany Road
St Leonards on Sea
East Sussex
TN38 0LN
01424 420036
we.help@drugrehab.co.uk
http://www.drugrehab.co.uk