Lobotomy by Any Other Name Commentary by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. On August 4, 2003 the Los Angeles Times published a story by Benedict Carey on the “New Psychosurgery” being conducted at medical centers at Harvard University and Brown. The syndicated report was republished around the country as recently as […]
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Peter R. Breggin M.D. testified in case On June 10, 2002, a jury unanimously found the Cleveland Clinic negligent in causing permanent, disabling brain damage to a woman by performing experimental psychosurgery on her without informed consent. Psychosurgery is the destruction of normal brain tissue for the purpose of treating […]
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Divergent Views in Psychiatry, M. Dongier and E. Wittkower, editors. Harper and Row, Hagerstown, MD, 302-326, 1981. Many psychiatric authorities have condoned pyschosurgery precisely because the very principles that find their most extreme expression in lobotomy also find more subtle expression in all the major somatic treatments in psychiatry. psychosurgeryas.pbreggin.1981.pdf
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Breggin, PR. (1975). In W. Fields & W. Sweet (Eds.), Neural basis of violence and aggression (pp.350-391). St Louis: Warren H. Green. Lobotomy and psychosurgery being used as on patients with neither brain disease nor epilepsy. psychosurgeryfor.pbreggin.1975.pdf
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