The “Brain Trust” at UCLA
The discourse on mental health is troubling, for psychosurgery in the form of lobotomies were deployed for many decades before they were stigmatized. (See...
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Virginia Woolf, suicide Most of this website is devoted to our political culture and its bizarre evasions of mental health issues. I blame this on an aversion to anything smacking of [the Jew] Freud...
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Paul Prud’hon, 1793 The publication today of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 manual, reminds us that insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies alike have no interest in Freud’s...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal discovers lobotomy craze for vets
As late as today, December 12, 2013, The Wall Street Journal, has discovered that traumatized veterans of WW2 and even later conflicts were routinely lobotomized, a procedure that is said to have its...
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