American psychiatry: a tortured history
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Psychiatry's Elister
Henry Carton who was the prime proponent of this and there was a man in Britain named Thomas Gervis Graves. He claimed he was curing 80 or 85 percent of his patients just like the beginning of the process we talked about. In fact patients who got the the most extensive treatment died at the rate of about 45 percent of those operated on. The report which should have ended things except Meyer suppressed it he kept it completely hidden.
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