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Leucotomy in Britain Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

John Pippard
John Pippard*
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Claybury Hospital, Woodford Bridge, Essex
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Is leucotomy “one of the best treatments we have” or is it “sheer unadulterated barbarism”? These are two of the many points of view expressed to me whilst I was collecting material for this paper.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 454 , May 1962 , pp. 249 - 255
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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