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A New Operation on the Brain.
Cutting Out Cares.
Public Reaction.
Psychosurgery enjoyed a brief popularity in the 1940s. Toward the end of the decade public opinion reacted against the treatment when sources such as the Washington, D.C., Psychiatric Society publicized the treatment. Lobotomies were criticized for being used indiscriminately by many doctors who did not report their failures. Surgeons operated all too often on a patient without even a preliminary psychiatric examination, and there was not enough follow-up evidence to support pro-lobotomy claims. Opinion against the treatment claimed the "cure" was as bad as the mental disease. Intractable patients were easier to handle, but "even when they are improved, they are still nothing to brag about." The operation itself was irreversible. But psychosurgery did not disappear. It has returned to favor in recent years accompanied by review boards to oversee the selection of...|
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