This paper examines how Turkish Cold-War psychiatry helped facilitate a political realignment in which religious conservatives and secularist state leaders united against the radical left. It focuses on particular on the writings of Ayhan Songar, a prominent psychiatrist who co-founded the conservative think-tank Aydinlar Ocagi (Hearth of the Enlightened) in 1970 and served as its president from 1979 to 1984. Drawing on Songar’s scientific and popular writings on a wide range of topics, I show how Songar used technoscientific concepts drawn in particular from cybernetics to establish a link between the Turkish state’ long-standing ideals of scientific governance and religious conservatives’ spiritual frame of reference. Cybernetic concepts enabled Songar to frame his psychiatric and neurological expertise in terms of a fundamentally spiritual worldview. Building on this synthesis, Songar sought to develop a spiritually rooted psychiatry that would serve as a basis for anti-leftist policies in education and the criminal justice system after the 1980 military coup.