psychosurgery

How To Use psychosurgery In A Sentence

• We have a sad history of enforced treatment of people who've committed crimes but now treatments like electrotherapy, electric shock treatment, and psychosurgery are very strictly regulated.
• In general, that's sort of a fuzzy borderline between psychosurgery and neurological surgery.
• His psychiatrist then recommended that he undergo psychosurgery. Times, Sunday Times
• In modern psychiatry ECT and psychosurgery are used in a much more discriminate and refined manner.
• But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery.
• Despite growing unease, more refined procedures such as cingulotomies were developed and the modern era of psychosurgery was born. Times, Sunday Times
• The Veterans' Administration openly admitted that psychosurgery was a standard procedure for treatment and not used just in experiments.
• Although Lucio's symptoms gradually abated, and despite Dr. Nise's strong objections, he was subjected to a then popular form of psychosurgery - lobotomy.
• But you can regard cosmetic surgery as being almost psychosurgery in that many of the conditions we are treating, even in people that are well adjusted, are in fact a psychological perception of aging of physical deformity.
• There is strong evidence to indicate psychosurgery was still being used in prisons in the 1980's.