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History of lobotomy in Poland (2018)

Jęczmińska, Kinga (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 29
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-21
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X17741231

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17741231

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Discovery in medicine Psychiatry Clinical medicine Medicine and government Physicians; doctors Surgical techniques Neurosurgery; psychosurgery Lobotomy 20th century Poland

In Poland, there were 176 cases of prefrontal leucotomy performed by Moniz’s method between 1947 and 1951. There were also several cases in which alternative psychosurgical techniques were used: prefrontal topectomy by Bilikiewicz and colleagues, and prefrontal topischemia by Ziemnowicz. This article analyses the following: publications by Choróbski, who performed lobotomy in Poland, and by Korzeniowski, who assessed its short-term results; a report by Bornsztajn, who reviewed general results of the method; and clinical research by Broszkiewicz and by Konieczyńska, who assessed Polish patients in terms of long-term results of lobotomy. Negative clinical evaluation of lobotomy led to its abandonment in Poland, a decision strengthened by a regulation that forbade lobotomy in the USSR and impacted Polish psychiatry.

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