As their differences grow, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes resort to Scientology counselling to get their marriage back on track.
After months of frustration and arguments, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have resorted to Scientology couples therapy — which involves being hooked up to a bizarre machine and questioned about their deepest secrets — in a desperate attempt to put their problems behind them.
The couple have been arguing about everything from having another baby to where to live, and insiders say things have turned so sour that the pair have been forced to turn to Tom’s controversial religion for answers.
“Scientologists often step in when there are problems in a marriage,” a source told US magazine Star. “They teach followers certain communication skills that are supposed to increase problem-solving potential.”
With Scientologists believing that psychiatry is “pseudoscience”, conventional therapy is not a part of church-sanctioned counselling. Instead, the sessions are more like something out of a sci-fi film, with participants hooked up to an E-meter — an electronic device that allegedly measures emotional disturbances in the body, and pinpoints the roots of emotional problems.
If Katie was expecting a warm and fuzzy approach to counselling, she was in for a shock — with one official church website coldly explaining that Scientology-approved couples counselling “is an exact technology for alleviating marital problems”.
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