the Social Worker's Role with Patients Selected for Surgical Therapy in Psychiatry.

Throughout the ages there have been many theories to explain functional mental disorders and many forms of treatment prescribed to help the psychotic individual return to health and peace of mind. One of the most recently developed therapies is the surgical treatment of mental disorder. Freeman and...

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Main Author: Maclean, Mary Maxwell.
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Published: McGill University 1953
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description Throughout the ages there have been many theories to explain functional mental disorders and many forms of treatment prescribed to help the psychotic individual return to health and peace of mind. One of the most recently developed therapies is the surgical treatment of mental disorder. Freeman and Watts describe psychosurgery as "a destructive surgical attack upon the brain in attempt to relieve distressing symptoms", and contrast it with the "passive, mysticism of psychoanalysis in its search for truth in the fundamentals of the developing personality". [...]
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