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Definition of Psychosurgery
1. Noun. Brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems.
Specialized synonyms: Amygdalotomy, Callosectomy, Callosotomy, Frontal Lobotomy, Leucotomy, Leukotomy, Lobotomy, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Prefrontal Leukotomy, Prefrontal Lobotomy
Definition of Psychosurgery
1. Noun. (context: surgery) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Psychosurgery
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Literary usage of Psychosurgery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Players in the Game: Destiny of Doom by Gyeorgos C. Hatonn (1993)
"There is strong evidence to indicate psychosurgery was still being used in prisons
in the 1980s. Immediately after the funding announcement by LEAA, ..."
2. Political Psychos by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"There is strong evidence to indicate psychosurgery was still being used in prisons
in the 1980s. Immediately after the funding announcement by LEAA, ..."
3. Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and Its Origins in the by Robin Munro, Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry (2002)
"Regarding the use of psychosurgery, an official source states that Chinese
neurosurgeons carried out numerous cases of human prefrontal lobotomy between ..."
4. Biomedical Issues in U. S. Public Policy (1993)
"(c) The Commission shall conduct an investigation and study of the use of
psychosurgery in the United States during the five-year period ending December 31, ..."
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