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TIL that Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, was a paranoid schizophrenic. His wife had him committed to a psychiatric hospital and it was after this time that he wrote out against all psychology and psychiatric practices. This is why the Church of Scientology is adamantly against them

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