They were banned in Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. The transorbital lobotomy replaced the surgical lobotomy, shown here in a drawing from a textbook, Medical Psychology. Shown here, a display from the Glore Museum of Psychiatry, where a nurse points out the instruments used in lobotomy. Today lobotomy is rarely performed; however, shock therapy and psychosurgery the surgical removal of specific regions of the brain occasionally are used to treat patients whose symptoms have resisted all other treatments.
Of course, the lobotomy always had its critics. Doctors, as well as the families of patients, protested that the surgery did nothing more than turn people into vegetables. The first lobotomy was performed by a Portuguese neurologist who drilled holes into the human skull.
In , Freeman performed his last lobotomy before being banned from operating. Why the ban? After he performed the third lobotomy on a longtime patient of his, she developed a brain hemorrhage and passed away. Decline of psychosurgery. The use of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom peaked in the late s and early s, with nearly 1, operations a year. Although some mental hospitals never used psychosurgery, or abandoned it after a brief trial, only a few voices were raised against it in the medical literature.
In the UK this surgery is only used — as a last resort — in cases of severe depression or obsessive compulsive disorder. Unlike all other psychiatric treatments, lobotomies cannot be given without the consent of the patient in this country. It cannot be performed without your consent in England and Wales. It is only performed extremely rarely. Made me laugh though.
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