Why does Scientology Oppose Psychiatry?

Why is Scientology opposed to psychiatry?

As expressed on the Citizens Commission on Human Rights web site:

"When the victims of psychiatry had no rights and needed a voice. “Treatment” was brutal, its only purpose to create compliant patients. Patients were subjected to punitive electroshock—without anesthetic as punishment for “bad” behavior."

"Using lobotomies and other psychosurgical procedures, psychiatrists destroyed patients’ brains with callous disregard. Those under psychiatric “care” were mercilessly experimented upon with therapeutically unproven mind-altering drugs."

Scientologists by their creed believe
That all men of whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own lives;
That all men have inalienable rights to their sanity;
That all men have inalienable rights to their own defense;

Psychiatry has demonstrated by its abuses that it is opposed to the right of sanity of others. It certainly takes away the ability to have one's own defense (do you think a mental patient has normal rights or is he or she subject to the whims of psychiatrists and their attendants). It even robs its victims of the right to live life. With this history comes the natural inclination, because of the fairness and decency of Scientologists and other informed individuals, to expose and oppose psychiatric abusive practices.