The first is one in which a person who is not mentally ill seeks to have alobotomythat would alter her personality in fundamental ways.
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This information is not available, but in 1973, 12 operations involving division of brain tissue—which includes leucotomy,lobotomy, tractotomy and others—were performed.
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I do not believe that he has been subjected to thelobotomywhich would be necessary to say that housing benefit should be considered in isolation from housing policy.
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Have they been subjected to masslobotomy?
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The former hospital is perhaps best known as a site of the infamouslobotomyprocedure, as well as various supposed paranormal sightings.
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He toured around the nation performing lobotomies and spreading their use by educating and training staff to perform the operation.
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During this time, the hospital began using previously decried procedures such as lobotomies, electro-shock therapy, and use of restraints.
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Since alobotomywas considered a ground-breaking medical procedure, the hospital did not attempt to conceal its work.
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Lobotomywas another practice that was ultimately seen as too invasive and brutal.
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Lefante is found wandering on a roadside, but appears to have been given an improperly-performedlobotomy.
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He performed the firstlobotomyon dogs in 1890.
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She develops a fixation with mental health that drives her to seek out a transorbitallobotomy.
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Later, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were practiced at the facility.
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He has received alobotomyand is now in a vegetative state, silent and motionless.
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Frontallobotomy(sometimes called frontal leucotomy) successfully reduced distress but at the cost of often blunting the subject's emotions, volition and personality.
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