Posted by Christ_empowered on May 31, 2015, at 18:41:32
In reply to Re: when did docs stop doing lobotomies?, posted by baseball55 on May 31, 2015, at 18:03:28
here the Guilty But Mentally Ill go to a super special psychoprison and the not guilty by reason of insanity are first kept in the state mental hospital and then kept on some kind of supervision by the dept. probation.
I think lobotomies "worked" better in long term state mental hospital patients. A lot of patients lost the ability support themselves completely, post-op, so it would make sense to keep them somewhere where they could be looked after and hopefully kept engaged in some sort of activity.
I'm just fascinated. Apparently, some lobotmies=good results by anybody's standards. Some people had multiple procedures. The most I've read about is 3 procedures (!). I don't know why they wouldn't just try something else if the first 1 (or 2) failed, but..OK.
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