Psychiatric Bulletin, 1990 Drilling holes in someone's skull and destroying parts of the brain is the kind of scenario dreamt up by anti-psychiatrists. That it can happen in practice - and once happened on a fairly large scale - remains a matter of sensitivity for the public image of psychiatry, notwithstanding that there are still cogent reasons to retain leucotomy in its ...
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