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Psychosurgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hugh Freeman
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Drilling holes in someone's skull and destroying parts of the brain is the kind of scenario dreamt up by anti-psychiatrists. That it can happen in practice - and once happened on a fairly large scale - remains a matter of sensitivity for the public image of psychiatry, notwithstanding that there are still cogent reasons to retain leucotomy in its armamentarium. So any presentation of this subject on the mass media needs to be done with the greatest responsibility, and should convey an accurate message.

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Psychiatry and the media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 7 , July 1990 , pp. 416
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990
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