Posted by NKP on September 23, 2009, at 4:45:22
In reply to Who Is Peter Breggin?, posted by Phillipa on September 20, 2009, at 13:05:56
Some are anti-psychiatry because of the barbaric and pseudo-scientific history of psychiatry.
Not for the sensitive, here is an advertisement for lobotomy in the American Journal of Psychiatry:
and a picture of a lobotomized patient:
http://www.paddedcell.com.au/psychosurgery.php
At the time, lobotomy was seen as a sound treatment for mental illness. I wonder how society might look back at the state of psychiatry today, fifty years from now.
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