History of the Lobotomy

Introduction

Since biological psychiatry, Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis have a big influence. The "romantic psychiatrists" postulate that mental patients can be treated by moral and behavioral instructions. In contrast, some neurologists investigating the biology of mental states. Carl Wernicke is related psychiatric symptoms with specific brain areas and Jean-Marie Charcot studied the biological origins of "hysteria." At the end of this century, Emil Kraepelin grouped for the first time, the stories of mental patients according to the progression of their disease and traits, which facilitates the interpretation of mental symptoms. In the early twentieth century psychiatric institutions are overcrowded, ...