Question: Does Scientology allow members to get cancer treatment

[BigmanPigman]

and treatment for other serious illnesses?

[Kittycow]

1. Are you thinking of John Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston?

She recently died after a two year battle with breast cancer

I've seen other people wondering about this, as well. (I don't know either.)

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yes, and I have listened to

Leah Remini and her Scientology/aftermath shows and I seem to recall they have issues with healthcare for some people.

[Beakybird]

2. They're not Christian Scientists, but the Scientologists don't believe in psychiatric treatment.

[RockRaven]

3. That probably depends on if it impacts the person's ability to pay them...

If treatment will bankrupt the patient, then probably not allowed.
If treatment will prevent a posthumous bequest to the "church" because of a successful cure, then also probably not allowed.


Based on nothing but cynicism, of course.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I think you're thinking of Christian Science.

They don't believe in almost any kind of medical treatment. Scientologists don't believe in psychiatry.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. The founder, Hubbard, had some issues with psychiatry/psychology as I remember.

Meaning he was not well himself or just a con artist, and so took offense that he created a cult to combat it.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I thought he had Cancer and psychological

issues and somehow connected the two in his theories.

[Act_of_Reparation]

9. A little from column A, a little from column B.

He was a narcissist of Trump-like proportions. Mental health professionals were highly critical of Dianetics and Hubbard, in response, declared war against psychiatry as a practice.

[Major Nikon]

8. Dianetics was originally offered as a substitute for psychiatric treatment

Hubbard got into trouble with the law for basically unlicensed medical practices. He created Scientology as a pseudo religion in order to get around those laws.

So it’s true that Scientology directs its cult members to shun psychiatric treatment and instead embrace “auditing” as treatment. I’m not sure if this extends to other types of medicine, but certainly adherents could believe that. Hubbard certainly taught his make believe “thetan” implants were the cause of both mental and physical illness.

“Implants result in all varieties of illness, apathy, degradation, neurosis and insanity and are the principal cause of these in man.”
https://www.latimes.com/local/la-scientologysidea062490-story.html