History of lobotomy in Poland

Bibliographic description

punktacja MEiN [2018 A]: 25

title:	History of lobotomy in Poland
author:	Jęczmińska Kinga
journal title:	History of Psychiatry
volume:	29
issue:	1
date of publication :	2018
pages:	3-21
ISSN:	0957-154X
eISSN:	1740-2360
DOI:	10.1177/0957154X17741231
notes:	Bibliogr. s. 19-21
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	In Poland, there were 176 cases of prefrontal leucotomy performed by Moniz’s method between 1947 and 1951. There were also several cases in which alternative psychosurgical techniques were used: prefrontal topectomy by Bilikiewicz and colleagues, and prefrontal topischemia by Ziemnowicz. This article analyses the following: publications by Choróbski, who performed lobotomy in Poland, and by Korzeniowski, who assessed its short-term results; a report by Bornsztajn, who reviewed general results of the method; and clinical research by Broszkiewicz and by Konieczyńska, who assessed Polish patients in terms of long-term results of lobotomy. Negative clinical evaluation of lobotomy led to its abandonment in Poland, a decision strengthened by a regulation that forbade lobotomy in the USSR and impacted Polish psychiatry.
keywords in English:	history, leucotomy, lobotomy, psychiatry, Poland
number of pulisher's sheets:	1,82
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper