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The doctors, the Scientologists, and the journalist

Sep 06, 202017 min
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Episode description

A federal court has been re-examining controversial psychiatric treatments used in a Sydney hospital in the 1960s. The treatments drew the attention of the Church of Scientology, and led to a Royal Commission. Today, Lane Sainty on what happened at Chelmsford, and the journalist caught in the middle 30 years on.

 

Guest: Contributor for The Monthly Lane Sainty.


Background reading:

Chelmsford revisited in The Monthly


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