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The introduction of leucotomy in Germany: National Socialism, émigrés, a divided Germany and the development of neurosurgery (2019)

Rzesnitzek, Lara (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 325-335
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X19843036

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X19843036

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Psychiatry Neurosurgery; psychosurgery Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Mental disorders and diseases National Socialism Lobotomy 20th century, early Germany

Thinking about the chronology of the introduction of leucotomy in Germany sheds new light on the hypothesis of a special ‘radical’ approach of German psychiatry to the treatment of the mentally ill during the period of National Socialism. Moreover, it offers new insights into the transnational and interdisciplinary conditions of the introduction of leucotomy in early divided post-war Germany.

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