Posted on 01/23/2019 11:19:09 AM PST by fishtank
Frontal Lobotomies: a Darwinian Mental Health Holocaust
1-22-2019
by Jerry Bergman, PhD
The frontal lobotomy was a psychosurgery treatment based on the evolutionary belief that, as the human brain evolved, the newer sections evolved on top of the older parts. The evolutionarily older brain section was later called the ‘reptile brain.’[2] A lobotomy, the theory postulated, could reduce undesirable ‘reptile’ behavior.[3] In the end, as many as 35,000 persons were lobotomized, producing what neurologist Frank Vertosick called “a mental health holocaust.”[4] We now know most patients replaced their reptile behavior with a sluggish, disoriented, even moribund, countenance. Some were reduced to vegetative states, and many died of cerebral hemorrhaging or other complications.[5]
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My favorite brain book is “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.”
Anti-Darwinists will clutch their pearls over that one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009MBTRHA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
The second favorite is “The Divine Banquet of the Brain.”
It’s a compendium of psychiatric strangeness.
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Banquet-Brain-MacDonald-Critchley/dp/0890043485
One star reviews are gold mines.
They sure are. If you only read one star reviews of President Trump, it would be a gold mine of sorts, too.
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