Essays on Lobotomy

Q1. Nurse Ratched position within the establishment is machine like in many aspects, especially in the way she wants the ward run, and the actions she takes in making things run in a line. She desires order, and complete power over the situation, which is evident din her manipulation of the staff to do her bidding. Her effectiveness at getting people to do her bidding is machine-like. Her selection of staff to run the ward is indicative of her ruthlessness, where she places black attendants with deep resentment over the white race. Thus, while the white patients should benefit ...

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Mental illnesses account for one of the oldest but least understood health issue facing the human race. The ancient Romans and Egyptians considered mental illness to be a manifestation of demonic possession. The same belief was carried on to the Middle Ages, as well as during the Renaissance. In America, this belief only changed in the last years of the eighteenth century. The belief that spiritual possession caused mental illness resulted in treatment procedures being inhumane. Most of these treatments involved the isolation of patients from the public. However, as people become enlightened, the modes of treatment changed, with ...

Characters in a number of motion pictures can be used to understand the exhibition and management of assorted psychological disorders. In some instances, film makers have wrongfully portrayed specific psychological disorders. Even so, the accurate or wrongful portrayal or use of a disorder as a backdrop theme is normally conceptualized with regard to the message that the film maker intended to pass across. This assertion underscores the fact that movies are predominantly used for entertainment hence are not bound to any accurate portrayal of a disorder. At the same time, it is notable how a number of films have helped in the conceptualization of ...

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Through Animal Rights Lenses The reasoning of the existence of a superior race is often used as a basis for animal objectification. Humans are believed to be the more advanced species when it comes to intelligence and even physique. This train of thought has allowed humans to justify hunting down animals, taking animals from their natural habitats and using them for purposes that would suit human’s wants and needs. Very few have ever questioned this notion, especially in the 19th century where things were very ...

Psychology: Early research into prefrontal lobotomy

Introduction Lobotomy is a psychosurgical procedure where the connections of the prefrontal cortex and underlying structures are severed, or where the frontal cortical tissues id destroyed. Lobotomy is a Greek word where lobos mean brain and tomos stands for cut. According to Raz, psychosurgery is where surgical methods are used on an anatomically normal brain with the aim of treating mental illness. The success of lobotomy during its first years after inception has been attributed to a number of factors by historians. During the early years when lobotomy became popular, there were few effective treatments for mental illnesses. This was ...

My Lobotomy is a memoir written by Howard Dully who is among the youngest people who underwent trans-orbital lobotomy. This procedure was performed on him while at the age of 12 and it was initiated by his step mother who disliked his behaviors. He explains how he was diagnosed by schizophrenia, the procedure and how it affected his life and how he learnt that it was not right for the procedure to be performed on him.

Dully’s mother died of cancer and left him under his step mother’s care. Dully grew up in an environment of emotional abuse ...

Lobotomy defines a neurosurgical process, which is a psychosurgery also named leucotomy. This procedure involves cutting of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex and the anterior part of the brain in the frontal lobes. This idea was pioneered by a Portuguese neurologist named Antonio Egas Moniz in 1935. He performed leucotomy, a brain operation, in a Lisbon hospital. This was the first leucotomy in treating mental illness. He drilled holes in the skull of the patient so as to gain entrance to the brain. The procedure became popular in treatment of serious mental illness including severe depression and schizophrenia. Additionally, the procedure ...