Psychiatry as a religion? I don't think so. The view of it being a recent science is valid but a religion would require articles of faith which is not represented in psychiatric scientific circles. That argument would assume that Evolution was a religion and not a scientific fact.

Buddhism and Confucianism are religions, no gods notwithstanding. They are a systemized view of philosophy that is not scientifically based. They are systems of "faith". Psychiatry or psychology is not predicated on a systemic faith. They are "established" in the scientific community and the government today would be advised to adhere to mental health that is prescribed by this new science.