The introduction of leucotomy in Germany: National Socialism, émigrés, a divided Germany and the development of neurosurgery. Issue 3 (September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rzesnitzek, Lara
• Is Part Of: History of psychiatry. Volume 30:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 325
• Page End: 335
• Publication Date: 2019-09
• Subjects: Hard cures -- history of neurosurgery -- leucotomy -- Nazi psychiatry -- post-war psychiatry -- somatic therapies; Psychiatry -- History -- Periodicals; Mental illness -- History -- Periodicals; 616.89009
• DOI: 10.1177/0957154X19843036
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0957-154X

Abstract

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.