There have been no controlled trials of leucotomy or temporal lobectomy.
This information is not available, but in 1973, 12 operations involving division of brain tissue—which includes leucotomy, lobotomy, tractotomy and others—were performed.
I am advised that leucotomy operations are nowadays used only for a few patients who fail to respond to other methods of psychiatric treatment.
He, too, stated that they were reducing the need for leucotomy.
Leucotomy which can have the effect of totally changing a patient's personality is legal, although it is a serious thing.
Drugs, or at worst leucotomy, are no real solution to adjustment to adverse conditions.
Figures of leucotomy operations are not available for 1953, and those for previous years include voluntary as well as certified and temporary patients.
Many people say that this treatment was just as rough and ready as the old prefrontal leucotomy.
