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Leucotomy in the Treatment of Psychopathic Feeble-Minded Patients in a State Mental Deficiency Institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. W. Mackay
G. W. Mackay*
Affiliation:
Rampton State Institution, Retford
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The results of leucotomy in mental hospital practice are already well known and are familiar from the Board of Control's review of 1,000 cases published in 1947.

I am not aware that in mental deficiency institutions the operation has become a practice in application to cases presenting gross abnormality of conduct having its origin in mental disorder which, though not amounting to one of the insanities, has the characteristics of a psychopathic state.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 397 , October 1948 , pp. 834 - 843
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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