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Psychological Measures As Used to Predict Psychiatric Improvement and to Assess Behavioural Changes Following Prefrontal Lobotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Paul McReynolds  and
Marian Weide
Paul McReynolds
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California
Marian Weide
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California
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The advent of the various tranquillizing drugs during the past few years and their increasing use in mental hospitals have had the effect of drastically decreasing the number of lobotomies performed. At our hospital, e.g., the last lobotomy was performed in November, 1954; previous to that time 131 such operations had been done in seven years. To all intents and purposes lobotomy is a therapeutic procedure no longer used for psychiatric purposes. This may change, of course—it may be decided that for certain patients a lobotomy is still the treatment of choice. Or, it may be that in the years to come lobotomy will be of interest chiefly to medical historians.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 442 , January 1960 , pp. 256 - 273
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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