The Lobotomy Protocols of the mid-20th Century
An examination of the rapid adoption and defensive propagation of prefrontal leucotomy, highlighting the resistance to corrective clinical data despite accumulating evidence of patient harm.
The psychiatric institutionalization of the lobotomy created an environment where the 'Lie' of therapeutic efficacy was protected by a self-reinforcing hierarchy, a classic manifestation of LHS dynamics.
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