Introspection Rundown

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Introspection Rundown is a pseudo-medical method practiced by Scientology . It applies when, in their opinion, a psychotic breakdown has occurred. The method developed by L. Ron Hubbard was introduced on January 24, 1974.

Introspection can be translated as self-perception or self-examination , in Scientology a rundown is an exact sequence of steps.

Introspection Rundown was processed in the media after the death of Lisa McPherson , who died after completing the program in 1995 in Clearwater , Florida.

background

The publication of Hubbard's book Dianetics - The Guide to the Human Mind in 1950 led to massive critical reception from the fields of psychiatry and psychoanalysis .

The doctor and initially enthusiastic Dianetician Joseph Winter noticed as early as 1950 that participants in Dianetics courses and the associated auditing subsequently had psychotic breakdowns.

Development and process

Hubbard developed the Introspection Rundown on board his flagship Apollo in the early 1970s, with his son Quentin Hubbard being one of the first to graduate. From his point of view, the recipe against psychotic breakdown was simple: isolation, water, food, and vitamin supplements.

Hubbard stated that “the psychotic breakdown, the last of the unsolvable problems a person can suffer, has been resolved. [...] Here you have allows you to take Psychotherapy completely the tool. " . There would therefore no longer be any justification for the existence of psychiatry per se.

Cases made known

Lisa McPherson

Lisa McPherson

One of the few known cases with regard to the outcome of the Introspection Rundown is that of Scientologist Lisa McPherson . After 17 days of isolation, she fell into a coma in December 1995, from which she never woke.

Marianne Coenan

In October 1989, 31-year-old Scientologist Marianne Coenan underwent an introspection rundown on a ranch in Pomona, California. She spent almost two months in a cell-like room before the police released her in early January 1990. Authorities described the woman as confused and with bruises and bruises on her legs, hands and neck. During this time she was looked after by her husband and family, all members of the Scientology organization. Investigations by the authorities came to nothing, as Marianne Coenan refused to file a complaint and the district attorney did not bring charges.

Martine Boublil

Martine Boublil was rescued by the police on January 21, 2008 after a caller reported cries for help. The police found the 47-year-old French woman lying half-naked on a mattress in a house near Nuoro, Sardinia. After she became infected with bugs, she was taken to the hospital. Three people who were in the house with Boublil were arrested. Boublil had been held in custody at the instigation of her brother, a senior member of the Scientology organization in France. The other people present were also Scientology members. After no complaint was made, the Boublil case was not pursued.

More cases

In the first twenty years after the introduction of the Introspection Rundown , it was used by a large number of Scientologists when they had suffered a mental breakdown. Jeff Hawkins, a former Scientology official with the Sea Org, reports on a case in which a woman spent a year in isolation. Nancy Many, also a former Sea Org employee, often saw guarded rooms at the Scientology Hotel Fort Harrison in Clearwater. News of psychotic breakdowns was consistently reported from around the world at Scientology's Flag Land Base in Clearwater.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8
  3. ↑ Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith , p. 112, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5
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  5. ↑ Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith , page 345, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5
  6. ^ Liane Billerbeck, Frank Nordhausen, How the sect group wants to conquer the world, page 171, 2008, Links-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86153-470-9
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  8. ↑ Lawrence Wright [2013] In the Prison of Faith, p. 345, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5
  9. ^ A b c d Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , pp. 210-11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8
  10. ↑ Los Angeles Times, David Freed and Eugene Ahn, Man Held Mentally Ill Wife Captive in Home, Police Say, January 7, 1990
  11. ↑ Los Angeles Times, Carol McGraw, Family of Woman Locked in Cell-Like Room Will Be Questioned, January 8, 1990
  12. ↑ Los Angeles Times, John H. Lee and John Johnson, Captivity Case May be Tied to Faith: Investigation: Church teachings may explain why a mentally ill woman was kept locked up in her Pomona home, police say, January 13, 1990, [ 1] , accessed August 20, 2014
  13. ↑ Los Angeles Times, John H. Lee, DA Won't File Charges Against Man Who Kept Wife Locked Up, January 31, 1990, [2] , accessed August 20, 2014
  14. ↑ Dalje, French Scientologists Arrested in Italy, January 21, 2008, archive link ( memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 20, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dalje.com
  15. ^ Agence France-Presse (AFP), March 1, 2008
  16. ^ Le Parisien, Anne-Cécile Juillet, L'étrange séquestration qui embarrasse la Scientologie, March 1, 2008, [3] , accessed on August 20, 2014
  17. ↑ Le Figaro, Une ancienne adepte francaise séquestree en Italie, March 3, 2008, [4] , accessed on August 20, 2014
  18. ↑ Janet Reitman [2011] Inside Scientology - The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion , p. 209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, ISBN 978-0-618-88302-8