Psychosurgery

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A No-Brainer  -  Apr 1, 2008
Insurance Networking News,...“MRI, CT scan and results of the performance of psychosurgery patients have been used to determine whether the tests activate the prefrontal cortex (the

Biological Influences on Criminal Behavior  -  Feb 1, 2008
Psychiatric Services (subscription)The author poignantly reviews the checkered history of psychosurgery and describes current psychosurgery applications to criminal behavior.

The Abolition of Man? How Politics and Culture Have Been ...  -  Feb 7, 2008
Heritage.org,They accepted at face value the purported benefits of such procedures as lobotomies, psychosurgery, and forced sterilization. They made grand promises about

Lobotomy: Proceeding Without Caution  -  Jan 20, 2008
Tampa Tribune,A now-discredited form of psychosurgery, the lobotomy at one time was heralded as a medical breakthrough in the treatment of mental disorders.

Is he crazy?  -  Dec 9, 2007
Los Angeles Times,This premise is flawed and has been used to justify the horrors of psychosurgery or a dictator's attempts to eradicate human imperfection.

WOULD GOD BLESS AMERICA  -  Dec 17, 2007
NewsWithViews.com,...“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given

Specialists were stumped by man's unrelenting pains  -  Dec 2, 2007
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription),The day an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins suggested cingulotomy, controversial psychosurgery reserved for intractable psychiatric problems, was arguably

the noonday demon by andrew solomon  -  Nov 5, 2007
Bookslut,...desperation involved. and it does take desperation to convince yourself to try something like electro-convulsive therapy (ect) or psychosurgery. imagine

‘help give them proper memorial’  -  Oct 28, 2007
Bradford Telegraph Argus,...benches and a sculpture. mr hutchinson, founder of survivors' campaign against lobotomy and psychosurgery (scalps), said: "to put 2800 people on that

a pain in the head  -  Nov 12, 2007
Washington Post,...controversial psychosurgery reserved for intractable psychiatric problems, was arguably "the worst moment," recalled neta nelson, who accompanied her

human rights group commends piedmont regional council for landmark ...  -  Nov 19, 2007
American Chronicle,...and victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from electroshock and involuntary commitment to political torture, psychosurgery and the devastating

Schizophrenics gain by practice, not meds  -  Oct 15, 2007
Science Daily (press release)...full article Psychosurgery -- Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain,

"One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" comes to Cal Rep  -  Oct 3, 2007
Milpitas Post,...is a dramatic and disturbing view into the world of psychosurgery and social management by electric shock therapy. Adapted from the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey,

10 things you might not know about the nobel prize  -  Oct 14, 2007
Sun-Sentinel.com,Today, some forms of "psychosurgery" are performed, but they are quite rare. 7 The most controversial honor in Nobel history? Perhaps the Peace Prize of

Some patients' bad memories haunt Oregon State Hospital's history  -  Oct 15, 2007
Salem Statesman Journal,In 1973, Oregon lawmakers created a Psychosurgery Review Board to provide guidelines and stringent controls for the by-then rarely used operation.

Howard Dully's searing story of his lobotomy at age 12  -  Sep 1, 2007
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,His surgeon was Dr. Walter Freeman, "sort of like the Henry Ford of psychosurgery," Dully writes. "He didn't invent the procedure, but he turned it into an

Review: Howard Dully's memoir about having a lobotomy at age 12  -  Sep 10, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,..."Freeman," writes Dully, "was sort of like the Henry Ford of psychosurgery." At the time, psychiatrists used various methods to treat mentally ill patients,

Man survives lobotomy surgery, shares horrendous experience Man ...  -  Aug 20, 2007
San Mateo County Times,..."Freeman was sort of like the Henry Ford of psychosurgery," Dully writes. "He didn't invent the procedure, but he turned it into an assembly line process,

Man survives lobotomy  -  Aug 6, 2007
New Hope Courier,..."Freeman was sort of like the Henry Ford of psychosurgery," Dully writes. "He didn‘t invent the procedure, but he turned it into an assembly line process,

Uncivil Liberties And The Empire's War On Its Citizens  -  Jun 19, 2007
Atlantic Free Press,...in a now-infamous program called MK ULTRA which also used hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and psychosurgery and which continued into the 1970s.

Gondry fest celebrates fantasy  -  May 10, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),Gondry shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Charlie Kaufman for the story of a bitter breakup between a couple who use psychosurgery to

Citizens Commission on Human Rights UK Celebrates its 38th Year  -  27 Apr 2007
PR.com (press release),Christine Mainstone described Chapman as a remarkable and courageous lady, whose experience serves to highlight the brutality of psychosurgery.

Sie sind hier: Home > Pressemitteilung: Swedish Big Brother behind ...  -  Apr 25, 2007
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (Pressemitteilung),Psychosurgery, with its roots in Switzerland, Portugal, and the US, came to be widely used in the modern mental hospitals in Sweden of the late 1940s.

Rise of psychosurgery  -  Apr 9, 2007
The Phoenix,Dr. Peter Breggin says lobotomy and other forms of psychosurgery which involved the destruction of portions of the human brain by surgery, irradiation,

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  -  Apr 10, 2007
Stage,...where the insane are systematically subdued and any disruptive surge of individuality can be permanently counterpointed with the dreaded psychosurgery.

Three human rights awards presented by CCHR UK at Saint Hill Castle  -  Apr 25, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),Christine Mainstone described Chapman as a remarkable and courageous lady, whose experience serves to highlight the brutality of psychosurgery.

The Right Brain Hypothesis for Obesity  -  Apr 24, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Psychosurgery in the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain. 2nd ed. Springfield, Ill: Charles C. Thomas; 1950. 3. Regard M, Landis T. "Gourmand

Should we allow the sun to shine on sex offenders?  -  Apr 7, 2007
Times of Malta,Many modes were applied which included psychosurgery, castration, drug therapy, counselling therapies and psychotherapy.

Five by Tenn - Five Landmark Plays by Tennessee Williams, New York  -  Mar 23, 2007
Blogcritics.org,...lies, or even psychosurgery if necessary), presents Goldie as both heartlessly brazen “truth� teller and instrument of Bertha’s imminent confinement.

Bill censors offenders' letters to the media  -  Feb 23, 2007
Kansas.com,The amended bill allows sexual predators to retain some of the rights they now have, including the right to refuse medication, psychosurgery or shock

Antidepressants Associated With Increased Risk For Suicide ...  -  Dec 7, 2006
Science Daily (press release)Psychosurgery -- Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes

Prisoner of his thoughts  -  Dec 16, 2006
Providence Journal,Hanging over them was the grim history of psychosurgery, performed during the 20th century without ethical guidelines, informed consent or even evidence

Antidepressants Associated With Increased Risk For Suicide ...  -  Dec 7, 2006
Science Daily (press release)Psychosurgery -- Psychosurgery is a term for surgeries of the brain involving procedures that modulate the performance of the brain, and thus effect changes in ...



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