Sentences with phrase «prefrontal lobotomies»
Part of the list of discredited methods, presented in the October Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, reads like an amalgamation of medical horrors and New Age ideas: prefrontal lobotomies, crystals, and pyramids.
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Clearly the disaster of a previous attempt to treat mental illness with surgery — prefrontal lobotomy — has not served as a lesson.
El - Hai describes how neurosurgeons experimented to transform the complicated prefrontal lobotomy into the simpler transorbital lobotomy — nearly an outpatient procedure in which a physician entered a patient's brain through a region above the eye with an ice - picklike tool.