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Lobotomy: Savior or Destroyer?
Gumpert, Martin | November 6, 1948 issue

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This article discusses the benefits and drawbacks of lobotomy. Frontal lobotomy is the surgical destruction of part of the white matter of the frontal lobes of the brain as a means of improving the patient's mental conation. Lobotomy is a new and exciting chapter in aggressive psychiatry which has also developed nacroanalysis, insulin shock and electric shock. Every new medical discovery requires a period of critical re-evaulation and lobotomy is undergoing such a test. Certain mental damage which was entirely overlooked at the beginning is being recognized and defined. It has been found that lobotomy cause the impairment of a high mental function what is called the "abstract attitude."

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FRONTAL lobotomy; AGGRESSIVENESS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; DEPRESSION, Mental; BRAIN -- Wounds & injuries
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