Talk:History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom

Copyright Violation
Are the sections on cingulotomy, subcaudate tractomy, capsulotomy and limbic leucotomy copied verbatim from this website. Does this constitute a violation of copyright? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freekra (talk • contribs) 17:50, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Or did they lift it from here? Freekra (talk) 17:51, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * They copied it from here.Staug73 (talk) 13:25, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Gottlieb Burckhardt references
I think the footnote is excessive for a mention of Burckhardt in the introduction. Perhaps some of the references will be useful for the Burckhardt article - also the bit about how different authors treat the subject. I think the Kotowitz reference is enough to make the point - perhaps there is another one you feel is especially relevant? .

However, Kotowicz notes a difference, irregularly observed, among medical historians and medical practitioners in their location of the origin of psychosurgery. The latter group, he contends, tend to favour beginning the narrative with Burckhardt whilst the former group favour starting with Moniz.

In the context of early psychosurgery, Berrios unusually also refers to the the operations performed in 1889 by a surgeon (Harrison Cripps) at the behest of the British psychiatrist Thomas Claye Shaw in which fluid was drawn from the brain of a patient diagnosed with General Paralysis of the Insane. While the purpose of the operation was aimed towards the alleviation of mental symptoms attendant on the condition the procedure did not aim to interfere directly with brain tissue and therefore it has been excluded from most conventional accounts of psychosurgery.

Staug73 (talk) 19:46, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * See Talk:Psychosurgery for discussion. FiachraByrne (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)