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Lobotomy - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 6th Mar, 2010 - 7:54pm
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There is a lot of controversy surrounding performing a Lobotomy on someone with psychiatric issues. What is your view, should it be a current medical procedure or rejected as electrocution has for similar issues?
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Lobotomy
Lobotomies were prominent in the 40s and 50s around the world. Some doctor (forget the name) improved the technique so it didn't require any holes to be drilled into the head. A unfortunate side effect of the technique improvement was a rapid increase in the technique being used for all sorts of things. In the 50s, mental health drug work started to yield results.
Currently, you can alleviate almost any condition with medication and wouldnt require a lobotomy. Lobotomies have always had a high rate of negative side effects...epillepsy, apathy, recklessness, etc...
I would think that this procedure should only be used as a last resort and very last at that.
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Are you referring to Walter Freeman 'improvement'? Here is what he did:
QUOTE Walter Freeman, an American physician, with his colleague James Watts, performed his first lobotomy operation in 1936. He was so satisfied with the results that he went on to do many thousands more, and in fact began a propaganda campaign to promote its use. He is also famous for inventing what is called ice pick lobotomy. Impatient with the difficult surgical methods pioneered by Moniz, he found he could insert an ice pick above each eye of a patient with only local anesthetic, drive it through the thin bone with a light tap of a mallet, swish the pick back and forth like a windshield wiper and -- voilà -- a formerly difficult patient is now passive.
Here is how the Japanese use it:
QUOTE It was often used on convicts, and in Japan it was recommended for use on "difficult" children. Ref. Source 9
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