Frontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): a historical overview
1995; American Psychiatric Association; Volume: 152; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1176/ajp.152.4.505
ISSN1535-7228
Autores Tópico(s)Mental Health and Psychiatry
ResumoBack to table of contents Previous article Next article No AccessFrontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): a historical overviewPublished Online:1 Apr 2006https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.152.4.505AboutSectionsView articleAbstractPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View articleAbstractOBJECTIVE: This article provides an overview of the history of psychosurgery as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses. METHOD: The author reviewed articles describing psychosurgery between 1935 and 1954 in order to summarize surgical techniques, clinical indications for surgery, patient selection, complications, and outcome. RESULTS: Patients were operated on for a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses. Initially, a large number of uncontrolled studies reported considerable therapeutic benefit in at least one-third of the patients operated on. Complications with the early surgical techniques included hemorrhage, seizures, infection, and personality changes. Surgical techniques proliferated in hopes of achieving greater therapeutic benefit while minimizing detrimental side effects. As psychosurgery became more widely accepted, its principal supporters began to use it as a routine therapy. A number of uncontrolled and controlled short-term studies supported the efficacy of psychosurgery, but long-term controlled studies showed mixed results. CONCLUSIONS: Psychosurgery was promoted as a treatment for patients who had shown little or no response to less drastic therapies. In the context of an era when no efficacious treatments were available for psychosis, its use was understandable. However, its history illustrates the importance of critical evaluation of new treatments in the context of long-term controlled outcome studies, the natural course of specific illnesses, and an understanding of brain physiology. 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