Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull
Factually! with Adam Conover
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What Was the Theory Behind Labotomy?
After the war, many psychoanalysts bitterly opposed labotomy. They thought it was a category mistakeyou you couldn't cure a psychological ailness by damaging the brain. But others of them actually provided a psychoalytic explanation for why the bottomy worked. Ah, the frontal loves were the super ego, the ego. And the eg resided further back in the brain, and the super got out of control, and so he had to cut it offso the cild ha hah.
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