psychosurgery

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Nonetheless, as the “Johnny Appleseed of psychosurgery,” he barnstormed around the country like an evangelist, visiting asylums and touting lobotomies as a miracle cure.

From Washington Post

Women made up 75 percent of the patients receiving such “psychosurgery” from Walter Freeman and James Watts, two prominent U.S. practitioners.

From Washington Post

They wrote a book about the success of what they call the psychosurgery, and they talked about lots of case studies.

From Salon

The fascination with psychedelic drugs, psychosurgery, brain-stimulation devices, intravenous infusions, etc., is symptomatic of the current mental health crisis.

From New York Times

Initially shocked that his method of pacifying a chimpanzee had been applied to humans, Fulton later became a proponent of psychosurgery.

From Scientific American